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- From: storti@beach (Duane Storti)
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- Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 21:58:22 GMT
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- In article <86181@ut-emx.uucp> mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes:
- > J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes
- > | I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those
- > |
- > | that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the
- > book and why you feel the way you do about it?
-
- As a NeXTStep neophyte with a very limited knowledge of C (and virtually no
- previous knowledge of objective-C), I found Garfinkel and Mahoney's book to be
- not only very informative, but surprisingly enjoyable reading. The range of
- material presented (object oriented programming, NeXT development tools and
- standard objects, threads, basic PostScript, event handling, defaults database
- access, etc.) is extensive. They make no claims of comprehensiveness, but
- sufficient material is given to enable a meaningful foray into all of these
- areas. More importantly, everything is presented in the most meaningful context
- possible: development of full-blown applications. Their example applications
- are well chosen both in terms of being relevant and interesting to a wide
- audience as well as providing an appropriate setting for applying all of the
- tools which they present. The difficulty and complexity of the examples
- progresses fairly smoothly so that the numerous hurdles of understanding which
- must be overcome seem relatively tractable at the time when they are reached.
- The book was written with obvious care and contains surprisingly few typos.
- Source code is provided on an accompanying disk and, with very few exceptions,
- it works as expected. The examples presented essentially provide just the sort
- of annotated templates that a newcomer needs to begin fashioning his or her own
- apps. All in all, I enjoyed reading Step One; I learned a lot from it; and I
- strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about NeXTSTEP programming.
-
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