Books about NeXTSTEP

I was exploring google books and noticed that they have a number of books about nextstep.
Guide to NS user interface: http://books.google.com/books?id=dCczblScSoYC&lpg=PA365&dq=nextworld%20magazine&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=nextworld%20magazine&f=false

Others are severely limited in how much you can view. But At least it gives an idea of what written resources are available

from NextStep/Openstep Developer Book Resources (https://www.reely.com/darren/xStep/openstep-refs.html)

NeXTSTEP Programming
Concepts and Applications
Author: Alex Duong Nghiem
Publisher: P T R Prentice Hall Inc.
ISBN: 0-13-605916-3
Copyright: 1993

Focuses on design and style. Clear with sample code. Has a whole chapter on Object Oriented Design which he follows throughout the book.

Does any one have a copy of the book and give a copy of the contents page please?
Has been supplied by user @stepleton as seen below
Thanks
Author: Alex Duong Nghiem (1993)
Preface                            xxiii
 Audience                        xxiv
 Prerequisites                    xxiv
 Hardware and Software            xxv
 Interface Tools: To Use or Not?,xxvi
 Organization,xxvii
 Conventions,xxix
 Tools Used to Create This Book,xxx
 Obtaining the Source Code,xxxi
 Author's Biography,xxxi
 Contacting the Author,xxxi
 Acknowledgments,xxxii

Chapter 1 NeXTSTEP Components,1
 1.1 Mach and UNIX,2
 1.2 The Window Server,3
 1.3 The Application Kit,4
 1.4 Objective-C,5
 1.5 The Workspace Manager,5
 1.6 ProjectBuilder,5
 1.7 InterfaceBuilder
 1.8 Summary

Chapter 2 OOP and Objective-C,7
 2.1 Goals,7
 2.2 Object-Oriented Programming,8
  2.2.1 Encapsulation,9
  2.2.2 Classes,10
  2.2.4 Subclasses,13
  2.2.5 Messages,17
  2.2.6 Polymorphism,18
 2.3 Objective-C,21
  2.3.1 Support for Abstract Data Types,23
  2.3.2 Messages,24
  2.3.3 Naming Conventions,25
  2.3.4 Objective-C Comments,26
 2.4 A Sample Objective-C Application,27
  2.4.1 Defining Classes,35
  2.4.2 Class Methods and Instance Methods,35
  2.4.3 Messaging Mechanisms,36
  2.4.4 Methods and Functions,40
  2.4.5 Self and Super
  2.4.6 Instantiating Classes,44
  2.4.7 Initializing Instances,45
  2.4.8 Freeing Objects,46
 2.5 Suggestions,50
  2.5.1 Printing the Indices of the List's Contents,50
  2.5.2 Freeing the List and its Contents
 2.6 Summary,51

Chapter 3 Object-Oriented Design,53
 3.1 Goals,53
 3.2 Methodology,54
  3.2.1 Indetifying the Objects,55
  3.2.2 Determining What Each Object Does,57
  3.2.3 Indentifying the Relationships Between the Objects,59
  3.2.4 Modeling the Flow of the Application,60
 3.3 Designing ShapeArea,61
 3.4 Tools and Techniques,62
  3.4.1 CRC Cards,62
  3.4.2 Class Summary Tables,66
  3.4.3 Message Diagrams,68
  3.4.4 Hierarchy Graphs,70
 3.5 Implementing ShapeArea,70
  3.5.1 Implementation Pass I,72
  3.5.2 Implementation Pass II,80
  3.5.3 Implementation Pass III,89
 3.6 Common Pitfalls in OOD,94
 3.7 Suggestions,96
 3.8 Summary,96

Chapter 4 The Application Kit,99
 4.1 Goals,99
 4.2 The Application Kit Classes,99
 4.3 The Common Classes,102
 4.4 A NeXTSTEP Application vs. an Objective-C Application,103
 4.5 A Minimal NeXTSTEP Application,104
  4.5.1 Design,105
  4.5.2 Implementation Pass I: Displaying a Window,111
  4.5.3 Implementation Pass II: Adding a Quit Menu Option,117
 4.6 Suggestions,121
 4.7 Summary,121

Chapter 5 ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder,123
 5.1 Goals,124
 5.2 The Development Cycle,124
  5.2.1 Starting a Project,126
  5.2.2 Adding the Objects,133
  5.2.3 Inspecting the Objects,134
  5.2.4 Making the Connections,138
  5.2.5 Testing the Interface,141
  5.2.6 Compiling the Application,142
  5.2.7 Launching the Application,144
  5.2.8 Decomposing a NeXTSTEP Appication,146
 5.3 Summary,148

Chapter 6 Processing Events,149
 6.1 Goals,149
 6.2 Event-Driven Programming,150
 6.3 The Target-Action Paradigm,153
  6.3.1 The Button Class,154
  6.3.2 The Slider Class,161
  6.3.3 The TextField Class,165
  6.3.4 The Form Class,168
 6.4 The Delegation Paradigm,172
 6.5 Designing Money,180
 6.6 Implementing Money,186
 6.7 Walking Through the Code,196
 6.8 Suggestions,197
  6.8.1 Adding Another Menu Option,197
  6.8.2 Setting a Window's Minimum Size,198
  6.8.3 Autosizing,203
 6.9 Troubleshooting,205
 6.10 Summary,207

Chapter 7 Drawing With PostScript,209
 7.1 Goals
 7.2 The View Class,209
  7.2.1 Creating a View,210
  7.2.2 Adding Subview,213
  7.2.3 Displaying the Views,214
 7.3 Mouse Events,218
 7.4 Converting Coordinates,220
 7.5 PostScript,222
  7.5.1 PostScript Primer,224
  7.5.2 PostScript Special Effects,229
  7.5.3 Interfacing to Objective-C Using Single Operators,232
  7.5.4 Interfacing to Objective-C Using pswraps,234
 7.6 Instance Drawing,237
 7.7 Designing Shapes,241
 7.8 Implementing Shapes,252
 7.9 Walking Through the Code,269
 7.10 Suggestions,274
  7.10.1 Adding Support for Printing,274
  7.10.2 Drawing Shadows,274
  7.10.3 Adding a Triangle Class,275
  7.10.4 Detecting Mouse Clicks,275
 7.11 Troubleshooting,276
 7.12 Summary,278

Chapter 8 Customizing NeXTSTEP Applications,279
 8.1 Goals,279
 8.2 The Defaults Database,279
  8.2.1 Reading Defaults with dread,280
  8.2.2 Registering Defaults,281
  8.2.3 Writing Defaults with dwrite,288
 8.3 Using Multiple .nib Files,289
  8.3.1 Setting the File's Owner,290
  8.3.2 Initializing Outlets,292
 8.4 Redesigning Money: Adding a Preferences Panel,296
 8.5 Implementing Money,309
 8.6 Examining the Code,324
 8.7 Suggestions,333
  8.7.1 Implementing the Quit Prompt,333
  8.7.2 Adding Support for Significant Figures,333
  8.7.3 Implementing Dynamic Conversion Rates,334
  8.7.4 Adding an Info Panel,334
 8.8 Troubleshooting,334
 8.9 Summary,336

Chapter 9 Processing Text,337
 9.1 Goals,337
 9.2 Creating the Text,338
 9.3 Selecting the Text,339
 9.4 Cutting and Pasting the Text,341
 9.5 Setting the Frist Responder,343
 9.6 Scrolling the Text,345
 9.7 Saving the Text,350
  9.7.1 Using the SavePanel,351
  9.7.2 Writing the Text to a File,354
 9.8 Loading the Text,357
  9.8.1 Using the OpenPanel,357
  9.8.2 Loading the Text From a File,361
 9.9 Adding a Text Delegate,362
 9.10 Designing Words,364
 9.11 Implementing Words,374
 9.12 Walking Through the Code,387
 9.13 Suggestions,397
  9.13.1 Enabling the Menu Options,398
  9.13.2 Updating the OpenPanel and SavePanel,398
  9.13.3 Adding Printing Support,398
  9.13.4 Saving Part of a Document,400
  9.13.5 Adding a Preferences Panel,400
  9.13.6 Openeing Files from the Workspace,402
 9.14 Troubleshooting,408
 9.15 Summary,409

Chapter 10 Implementing On-Line Help,411
 10.1 Goals,411
 10.2 The On-Line Help System,411
 10.3 Using Links,413
 10.4 Using Markers,415
 10.5 Adding On-Line Help to Words,417
 10.6 Troubleshooting,424
 10.7 Suggestions,426
  10.7.1 Adding the Help Entries to the Index,427
  10.7.2 Creating More Help Entries,427
  10.7.3 Adding Graphics to the Help File,427
 10.8 Summary,427
 10.9 Epilogue,428

Appendix A A NeXTSTEP Tutorial,431

Appendix B Tools of the Trade,447
 B.1 Edit,447
  B.1.1 Using the Implicit Expansion Dictionary,447
  B.1.2 Customizing the Expansion Dictionary,449
  B.1.3 Contracting and Expanding the Listing,452
 B.2 Digital Librarian,453
  B.2.1 Expanding the Search String,456
  B.2.2 Limitations of Digital Librarian 457
 B.3 HeaderViewer,458
  B.3.1 Language Elements,459
  B.3.2 Using the Find Controls Options panel,460
  B.3.3 HeaderViewer Vs. Digital Librarian,463
 B.4 Terminal,465
  B.4.1 Copying Text,465
  B.4.2 Messaging the Workspace,468
  B.4.3 Messaging HeaderViewer,469
  B.4.4 Messaging Digital Librarian,470
 B.5 The make Utility,470
  B.5.1 The Makefile,470
  B.5.2 Removing Files: make clean,474
  B.5.3 Installing the Application: make install,474
  B.5.4 Deinstalling the Application: make deinstall,475
  B.5.5 Makefiles for the Applications,476
  B.5.6 Error Messages in make,480

Appendix C Common NeXTSTEP Mistakes,483
 C.1 Runtime Errors,483
 C.2 Warnings,486

Appendix D Debugging,491
 D.1 Tracing the Program,491
  D.1.1 Tracing a Non-Event Driven Application,492
  D.1.2 Tracing an Event-Driven Program,493
  D.1.3 Implicit and Explicit Message Sending,498
  D.1.4 Reverse-engineering an Application,501
 D.2 Debugging with gdb,504
  D.2.1 Compiling for Debugging 504
  D.2.2 Setting BreakPoints,508
  D.2.3 Running the Application,509
  D.2.4 Printing Variables,510
  D.2.5 Single-Stepping,512
  D.2.6 Browsing Objects,514
  D.2.7 Continuing the Execution,518
  D.2.8 Setting Variables,519
 D.3 Suggestions,521
 D.4 Summary,521

Appendix E Resources,523
 E.1 Bundled Documentation and Source Code,523
 E.2 Books,524
  E.2.1 NeXTSTEP,524
  E.2.2 Object-Oriented Design and Technology,525
  E.2.3 Object-Oriented Programming and Objective-C,525
  E.2.4 PostScript,526
  E.2.5 C,527
  E.2.6 UNIX,527
  E.2.7 User-Interface Design,528
  E.2.8 Miscellaneous,528
 E.3 Magazines and Journals,529
 E.4 Internet Archives,530
  E.4.1 Using anonymous ftp,531
  E.4.2 Using the Mail Server,532
  E.4.3 Unpacking the Data,533
 E.5 NeXTAnswers,534
 E.6 Newsgroups,534
 E.7 User Groups,535
 E.8 Special Interest Groups Mailing Lists,571
 E.9 Bulletin Boards,572
 E.10 Associations,573
 E.11 Conventions,573


Appendix F Porting to NeXTSTEP/Intel,575
 F.1 Hardware Considerations,576
  F.1.1 The Screen,576
  F.1.2 The Mouse,578
  F.1.3 The Keyboard,578
  F.1.4 Sound,580
 F.2 Data Representation Considerations,580
  F.2.1 Datum Size,580
  F.2.2 Byte Alignment,581
  F.2.3 Byte Order,581
  F.2.4 Datum Format,582
  F.2.5 Argument Passing,582
  F.2.6 External Data,583
   F.2.6.1 Reading and Writing Structure Bitfields,584
   F.2.6.2 Reading Existing Files,588
  F.2.7 Internal Data,593
  F.2.8 Memory-mapped Data,594

Index,597


Here you go: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2ZadbEwTtBbirPGj6

Thanks a lot for that @stepleton it seems like a good book to purchase :), will purchase it in the future.

I found a copy of "Developing NeXSTEP Applications" by Gene Backlin. Looks like a nice introduction, but was wondering if someone has a link to the author or to the source code that came with the book ( on a disk of some sort which I don't have with this book ).

Quote from: mikei on February 07, 2024, 02:21:15 PMI found a copy of "Developing NeXSTEP Applications" by Gene Backlin. Looks like a nice introduction, but was wondering if someone has a link to the author or to the source code that came with the book ( on a disk of some sort which I don't have with this book ).

Would it be possible of you to provide a copy of the contents section please?
supplied by user @mikei in the next post below.

from NextStep/Openstep Developer Book Resources (https://www.reely.com/darren/xStep/openstep-refs.html)

Developing NeXTSTEP Applications
Author: Gene Backlin, 1995

QuoteIn its 588 pages this book covers a great deal of ground. It contains a great deal of code and pictures that clearly explain what you should be seeing as your working with Interface Builder. The book explains all the basics, but also discusses the Objective-C language, Object-Oriented Design, Drag & Drop, and Distributed Objects. It also contains a disk.

Overview

	Acknowledgments	xii
	Introduction	xiii
1	Welcome to the NeXTSTEP World	1
2	The NeXTSTEP User Environment	11
3	The NeXTSTEP Developing Environment	21
4	Objective C Language	39
5	Building an Application without Development Tools	47
6	Building an Application with Development Tools	55
7	Object-Oriented Design	69
8	The First NeXTSTEP Application	77
9	The Basic Window	93
10	The Delegate	117
11	Panel Processing	145
12	The View	197
13	The Browser	231
14	Mouse Processing	265
15	Drawing	291
16	Images	333
17	Multiple Windows	389
18	The Pasteboard	427
19	Drag and Drop	459
20	Menu Processing	503
21	Distributed Objects	537
A	Object Hierarchy	565
B	Building Your Application: First Steps	567
C	Adding Online Help	577
D	Packaging Your Application	583
	Bibliography	589
	Index	591

EDIT: Added Overview of the TOC as provided by user @mikei to help other forum users influence their decision on purchasing the book.

Here's the Overview of the ToC for Developing NeXTSTEP Applications ...

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