I recently read half of Matt Neuburg’s book Programming iOS 5 as a part of my summer vacation to get introduced to a client-side platform. I was bored of working on back-end programs for many years and now I would like to discover dynamics of client programming.
First of all, this book is very long. I have read its ePub version, but the printed version is 1016 pages long. It has 40 chapters and tells many topics in details. However, I would like to tell you why I didn’t like it in the first place. The book tells about Objective-C language internals, iOS/Cocoa Framework internals very detailed. It is not designed in a cookbook or tutorial fashion. Instead, it tells you how the language works. I wish it would teach me “how to get things done” but halfway through the book (and skimmed the rest through the Table of Contents) I learned many details about the language and framework and nothing else at all. Read More →