Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:17214 comp.lang.objective-c:244 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!johnc From: johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.objective-c Subject: Re: Recommendations for an Objective-C book? Keywords: objective-c learning book recommendation Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 04:12:08 GMT References: <1991May6.190554.2178@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May6.203835.15980@cs.ubc.ca> <1991May6.224537.7341@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 34 jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson) writes: >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)? >Jeff >-- >jeffo@uiuc.edu I would suggest these books for learning to program the NeXT: Cox, Brad J., "Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach" ISBN 0-201-10393-1. Good intro to Objective-C. Webster, Bruce J., "The NeXT Book" ISBN 0-201-15851-5 A few chapters here are a good launching point into NeXTstep programming. NeXT Technical Documentation: Ah, the meat of the matter. Learning Smalltalk will help, too. The extensions added to C to create Objective-C were patterned after the Smalltalk model. Master Smalltalk and all other object-oriented systems are easy. Hope this helps -- -- John Coppinger "You'll find that your left cuff link -- -- University of Kentucky will be communicating with your right -- -- johnc@s.ms.uky.edu cuff link via satellite" -- -- johnc@graphlab.cc.uky.edu [NeXT] -- Nicholas Negroponte --