Get yourself comfortable wit Objective-C first. But then David's book is a great way to learn about GNUstep as well as Cocoa. The only problem you will find are the examples. David wrote them on Apple and forgot to convert the NIB files into something GNUstep is able to read. He is also using properties a lot and gcc currently wont support them. But the later is an easy rewrite, whereas for the former you will need InterfaceBuilder to store the NIB files in the old NIB format.
Fred Am 02.03.2010 18:58, schrieb James Mahoney: > Thanks for all the advice so far, everybody. I've settled so far on > the K&R C book. I did have a long look at the newer edition of > Kochan's book at the bookstore, but I wasn't interested in a Hello > World of that magnitude (: My instinct said that learning straight C > for a while might be good before moving on to object land. We shall > see. > > I do have a question about your book, David. I read your synopsis on > the Etoile News, but I'm still uncertain if it's a good book if all I > want to do is hack with GNUstep and possibly Etoile (in the long > long run) and not really use OS X and Cocoa per se (at a young age I > was quite taken with RMS's stance against proprietary systems; by no > means am I a 100% kosher free-software only user, but I would rather > use GNUstep only than Cocoa for personal use). I do want to get your > book if it would be useful, as I assume you make some bit of money > out of each purchase. Anyways, thanks again for the advice > everyone. > > James > > Why do we find ourselves living as if to say “I am willing to pay the > price to settle for something less”? — Lorenzo Albacete > > > --- On Mon, 3/1/10, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: David Chisnall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: >> [Etoile-discuss] Best beginning ObjC book? To: "Discussion list for >> Étoilé desktop environment" <[email protected]> Date: >> Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:46 AM On 1 Mar 2010, at 07:33, Marc >> Brünink wrote: >> >>> I personally know only one book, but I liked it when >> it read it: >>> >>> Stephen Kochan Programming in Objective-C >> >> >> It's worth noting that the first edition of this book had all of >> the examples tested with GNUstep, while the second one (Programming >> in Objective-C 2) did not. If you can find a copy of the first >> edition, I'd recommend it too. >> >> Most of the stuff in the second edition should now work with clang >> + libobjc2, but GNUstep won't accept contributions that depend on >> this combination (probably for a long time) and Étoilé won't for at >> least a few more months. >> >> David >> >> -- Sent from my IBM 1620 _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
