Comments on: Xcode 3 Unleashed, Part I

By: john

john — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:44:40 +0000

Jeroen,

One thought would be to resell the book through Amazon or another book site. I’ve found this a good means to “recycle” technical books that are still relevant yet are no longer needed in my library.

john

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:18:57 +0000

Bought this book last week.
I’m sorry but it’s not the best good book for XCode starters
- Too many Mac programming details are stepped over in the examples
- Still use Objective C 2.0 code (without garbage collector) in a XCode 3.0 interface is
outdated, I know now ;-(

I’ve still learned some Xcode tricks though, but 40 Euro’s is pretty expensive for a few tricks!

Any advice?

Jeroen
(C#, C++ and PHP, >7 years, on PC…)

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:56:16 +0000

Martin,

Belive it or not, I found the code at the Safari Online site! If you look at the top of the book window, you see links for TOC, Index, and examples. Click the examples link and that is the CD file store.

Thanks for your help…(PS I bought the book just before I found that!)

Lyle

By: Martin Haeberli

Martin Haeberli — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:48:48 +0000

But I just found this:

http://x3u.manoverboard.org/

Which has the downloadable sample code.

Best,

Martin

By: Martin Haeberli

Martin Haeberli — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:40:50 +0000

I share Lyle’s problem.

I purchased the ebook from O’Reilly / Safari Books Online. Alas, the CD-ROM doesn’t seem to be available with the ebook I purchased, nor are the files from the CD-ROM

Thanks,

Martin

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:46:50 +0000

John, I agree with your assessment of the book. However, as someone new to the Mac, Xcode and Objective-C, I found myself a little lost at times. Partly because I was also trying to learn the Mac Gui interface (coming from the PC world). Another problem is that I am reading the book online using Safari Books online, and I got stuck at the Regression.m class development. I think it would have been better if the author had continued completely including the code in text as well as providing it in a CD directory, both for continity and completeness.

Thanks,

Lyle

By: Stephen McConnell

Stephen McConnell — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:58:27 +0000

Thank you for this basic review. I am new to programming for the Mac and Objective-C in general and, after learning the basics of Objective-C, have been using “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Third Edition)” to learn XCode 3.x and basic Cocoa Programming. Having programmed in C/C++, Java and Smalltalk there was a small learning curve there, but I’m enjoying Objective-C.

I was trying to decide whether to get XCode X3 Unleashed. The initial part of the review convinced me to get it. The iterative development of a linear regression program using MVC helped me decide. Also, the chapter on using Subversion also helped. I’ve been a CVS user since punch cards (it seems so) and haven’t been able to wrap my mind around the Subversion paradigm (way toooooo flexible). I hope this book will give me some ideas.

Thanks again for the good review.