NeXTSTEP Programming: STEP ONE: Object-Oriented Applications

By Michael Mahoney and Simson Garfinkel

Book Overview

This is an extremely clearly written, comprehensive and well-illustrated book whose appearance corresponds to the availability date for the 3.0 Version of NeXTSTEP from NeXT Computer, Inc., in summer, 1992. It will be of great interest and use to most NeXT computer owners, users and developers, as well as to those working with Intel 486-chip based machines, for which NeXT is making the 3.0 Version of NeXTSTEP available for purchase. The Garfinkel-Mahoney package consisting of both a book and a floppy disk is a reference work, a handbook, and a classroom tool for courses in computer programming and software development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461392772
• ISBN13: 9781461392774
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 631 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The best Cocoa book is a NeXTStep book.

So obj-c is c with some extensions.....Maybe it is, but after opening most of the Cocoa books on the marked, a lot of people find Cocoa to be quite a distance from c.Mostly because c-code is easy and (for a newcomer) not very abstract in a geeky way. In this book, every c-coder will be familiar with the syntax. There is even sample code which doesn't use IB. And the code is highly readable. This book is very well written and...

-Still- useful, even for OS X Cocoa development

(Caveat: I'm only about halfway through this book right now.)I picked up a copy of this book a couple of years ago, and it sat unused on my bookshelf. I'd even tried selling it at a couple of garage sales, to no avail. I probably wouldn't have ever missed it if I hadn't read Apple's /Learning Cocoa/ as my first attempt at Mac OS X programming. But /Learning Cocoa/, like proverbial Chinese food, leaves you hungry soon after...