I've been wanting to learn Objective C for a descent while so I can one day soon start creating my own iPhone apps. I'm pretty familiar with programming in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which is used in your Microsoft Office products for automating certain tasks. In the past, I'd started reading some other books on Objective C, but I always tended to put them down after a few days of reading. The main reason was that they'd jump head long into something totally foreign to me at times and only briefly explain it. So I was left grasping for straws at times to understand things.
This book however does a great job of explaining the fundamentals of Objective C. It starts off with the fundamentals of programming that are pretty identical among most modern programming languages. So if you've programmed some in another programming language the material covered seems pretty familiar, you just are really noting the slight differences in the language compared to the one you are used to.
From there they slowly expand into other topics, working in a gradual way with short manageable chapters that make you seem like you're flying through the material. The material is concise and not real in depth. And for people like me, that want to know what everything in the code example means, they let you know when to be patient and when they're going to cover it later.
About the only complaint I can make so far is that they mention about using the File menu. And for those of you used to PC's, there really is no File menu that I can find so far in the XCode 5 program. So when you're at the very beginning of learning how to open the program and shut it down they don't really guide you by hand so-to-speak on how to do the very basics, of using XCode 5 like they should.
But otherwise it seems really well written so far and I'm moving pretty fast through the book. Granted programming books aren't per se fun to read. But this one is kind of hard to put down compared to others.
***Update 3/10/2014***
I found the file menu as described by my comment below. It may sound stupid to regular Apple users that a person can't find the File menu when pretty much every regular Apple user knows it is at the top of the screen instead of at the top of the window like with PC's. But it is a good idea to point that out when you're going over very basic stuff where people who are used to PC's and who rarely to never use an Apple/Mac are trying to get used to the differences. Overall though, the book is very well written.
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