UGH! Regarding that Cocoa book, chapter 8. What the heck?? He just breezes through building this app called RaiseMan, and doesn't explain anything. He throws out all these names like canRemove, arrangedObjects, etc., and doesn't explain them one bit.
This is kind of frustrating. A few examples here...
Say what? What's the reasoning behind doing this? The first paragraph makes sense mostly, it's associating the NSArrayController with the class "Person".. an array of people. Fine. But the second paragraph above.. what the heck? Up to this point, we've never even used the "File's Owner" object. There was never an explanation of what it is or how it works.
He continues on in a similar fashion, and the chapter ends with no explanation of what any of this means. Keep in mind, I have experience in C and C#. I don't think I'm unable to grasp this stuff, I just think his teaching style isn't so hot, unless I'm missing something, or he explains all this in detail later in the book. If the rest of the book is just the "follow these steps blindly" kind of approach, I'd rather just sell/donate it.