[jpmfan]

Hi

I'd like to learn to program Cocoa. I know C, C++ and I've had a play around with the Cocoa tutorial (MoonTravel) and I'd like to know more. I had a go with the Vermont Recipes and I spent hours typing in weird stuff not really knowing what I was doing - the Vermont Recipes seem a bit advanced for a beginner - lots of API calls and precious little explanations. I've also had a peruse of the Cocoa docs that were on the Dev Tools CD and they seem to be more of a reference (i.e. "This call has these parameters") and seems to be lacking in examples.

I wanted to dynamically stick stuff into a combo box in my code instead of using IB to do it. I managed to empty the combo box but when I tried to stick an NSString into the combo box it blew up with an exception - something about selectors (whatever they are).

So, does anyone know of any resources that can help me to learn Cocoa programming from scratch? Should I wait and get the O'Reilly book that's supposed to be out soon?

[Peldone]

I have been teaching myself Cocoa and I have found that the best resources are a combination of open source code, the omnigroup mailing list that I have archived and can search through (you can also search the mailing list on their web site at www.omnigroup.com), and Apples documentation which lets me know what is possible with a method. If I have problems with implementing a method I search the archive for that method and find a sample or find an open source program that implements the same UI element. Check out ...
osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/CocoaSource.html www.omnigroup.com/community/developer/mailinglists/

[Angus_D]

MoonTravel is the Carbon tutorial. CurrencyConverter is the Cocoa tutorial. I suggest you also read the following thread: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/000609.html

[LordJavac]

I would think that "Learning Cocoa" from O'Reilly & Associates would be a good place to start. It should be available in the next few weeks.