My copy of “iPhone Open Application Development” arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It’s a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it’s a nice little addition to the collection.
Why is this book relevant when we have a proper (beta) SDK available from Apple’s Developer Site. Because, gentle reader, it looks at the system from a different angle and I think it will help me better understand how things fit together. It goes into a lot of detail in the construction of an application and the bits and pieces that are needed. This reinforces that there’s no ‘magic’ here. It’s a system with components.
I’ve only got a couple more chapters to go through in the Cocoa book I’m working on. Then I’ll attack the iPhone book as well as the BigNerdRanch Cocoa book.