Learning OBJ-C?

[d000hg]

I'm porting a C++ app to iPad/Mac and dislike having top copy-paste bits of OBJ-C from the web to glue it together. So I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on a good book to teach OBJ-C & Mac/iOS dev to an experienced developer (I know C++, Java and C#) who has spent 99% of their time on Windows platform?

 

[russell]

I'm porting a C++ app to iPad/Mac and dislike having top copy-paste bits of OBJ-C from the web to glue it together. So I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on a good book to teach OBJ-C & Mac/iOS dev to an experienced developer (I know C++, Java and C#) who has spent 99% of their time on Windows platform?

This is a good book. It takes you through Xcode, Obj-C and iOS 5. I had learned C first, so Objective C wasn't a big leap.

 

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This is a good book. It takes you through Xcode, Obj-C and iOS 5. I had learned C first, so Objective C wasn't a big leap.

+1 anything by that author will be a good choice (just get the latest edition).

 

[NickFitz]

Programming in Objective-C is good.

I'd also recommend Cocoa Design Patterns for getting a proper understanding of the way things are done: it makes life much easier if you go with the grain of the OS, and having always been fully OO (via its roots in NextStep) Cocoa has a lot of really good patterns underlying it. If nothing else, make sure you have a good grasp of the delegate-datasource-notifications way of doing things, as it appears everywhere and you'll find life is beautiful if you use it too.

 

[d000hg]

Thanks all

 

[NickFitz]

FWIW, here's a pretty good introduction, just published: there are other good tutorials at the same site. Objectively Speaking: A Crash Course in Objective-C | Ray Wenderlich