[Pythonmac-SIG] book recommendation

[Bob Ippolito]

On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:42 PM, David Reed wrote:

> I've an experienced Python programmer on Linux - I've mainly used  
> gtk and glade for interfaces and now I'm slowly trying to get  
> started with Cocoa apps on X-Code.
>
> I've got the CurrencyConverter example working in Python and I did  
> the HelloWorld example in "The Mac XCode 2 Book" by Cohen and Cohen  
> in Objective C. I got the Python version working  by guessing that  
> I needed to use:
>
> self.helloSayer.setStringValue_("Hello world")
>
> based on the CurrencyConverter example that did: setFloatValue_
>
> That was pretty obvious, but I think I need a Cocoa book that  
> allows me to see what all the methods are for a given object. I've  
> just started the above mentioned XCode 2 book, but it doesn't  
> appear to have the details of all the Cocoa objects.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for another book I should get - I  
> assume I want a Cocoa book of some sort.

If you want a reference, go here (or use the documentation facility  
in Xcode):
http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/

I doubt that you're going to find a good book that has it all and is  
reasonably up to date.

-bob