Programming in Objective-C (5th ed.)

More about the book here.
(expected) Release date: 10 Nov 2012

Programming in Objective-C, 4th edition

You can find more about the book here.

Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Ed.) is out!

You can now buy the "Programming in Objective-C" (2nd Ed.) book by Stephen G. Kochan.
Amazon has it.

I will buy it as soon as Amazon.co.uk has it in stock!

Becoming a Cocoa Programmer

Recently, I bought the 3rd edition of Hillegass' book "Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X". As I was having a quick look at its contents, I decided to fully read and study it in order to become a Cocoa Programmer. I will inform you about my progress. (Please feel free to write me the tips and advices you may have.)

A small exempt from the book (p. 417)

• "The only way to solidify what you have learned is to write applications. The sooner you start, the easier it will be."
  

PS. I am also waiting for the 2nd edition of Kochan's book "Programming in Objective-C 2.0".

Stephen Kochan and Apple Discussions

Today, I saw that Stephen Kochan, the author of "Programming in Objective-C" (which will have a 2nd edition soon) can also be found at Apple Discussions site.

You can find his first post here.

You can also find useful things about the 1st edition of his book here.

Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) is coming

The 2nd edition of Kochan's book will be published by the end of the year.

The Objective-C Programming Language

Objective-C was introduced with NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is mainly used in combination with the Cocoa framework (a collection of libraries) under Mac OS X although you can program in Objective-C without using these libraries if you want to.

Objective-C is an extension to the famous C programming language that adds support for object-oriented features. What Objective-C does is to add Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

Mac OS X is based on the NeXTSTEP operating system. In 1993, the set of libraries found in NeXTSTEP were renamed OpenStep and then Cocoa.

I very nice book for learning Objective-C is "Programming in Objective-C" by Stephen G. Kochan. I highly recommend this book. You can find more information about it here.