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From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Recommendations for an Objective-C book?
Keywords: objective-c learning book recommendation
Message-ID: <1991May7.060829.14913@jyu.fi>
Date: 7 May 91 06:08:29 GMT
References: <1991May6.190554.2178@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May6.203835.15980@cs.ubc.ca> <1991May6.224537.7341@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <1991May6.224537.7341@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>In <1991May6.203835.15980@cs.ubc.ca> mgobbi@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Gobbi) writes:
>
>>I've been working on the NeXT for some time now and never bothered to buy
>>a book on objective-C programming.  I think if you are already understand
>>the fundamentals of object-oriented programming you can get by nicely just
>>using the on-line documentation that comes with the NeXT.
>> ...
>
>But I don't already understand the fundamentals of object-oriented
>programming.
>
>Are there any books that give such information (as pertaining to
>objective-C)?
> ...

Then I think the book for you is Timothy Budd's brand new
"An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming" (Addison-Wesley).
It is exceptional among OOP textbooks in that it treats 4 different
languages rather equitably:  Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ _and_
Objective-C.  (Bias warning: having commented and discussed a lot
on the manuscript, I cannot be totally impartial about this book.)

For a book that describes Objective-C in greater detail, without
neglecting the basic principles of OOP, I think a new edition
of Brad Cox' classic (now with a second author) was rather recently
mentioned in this group.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
PL 35
SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)