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Learning Programming ?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I want to learn how to build programs in OS X. I'm a fast learner and only played with Pascal language for 2 years. What would be the best way to learn ? Is there a bible book ? And what language should I learn ?
Thanks for the recommendations. Sorry If I'm in the wrong forum.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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as somebody who knows very little about it I can say:
you can write in a variety of things, but Objective-C is the basis of cocoa.
You can do a tutorial and learn a lot by downloading the developer tools and looking at documentation from Apple. All of that is free - at which point there may well be a book or seven that can help; but Apple's own free stuff is a good place to start.
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I'd start by getting a good book on C until you get a good handle on the C language. If you know Pascal already, C won't be hard to learn at all. I used Dave Mark's Learn C on the Macintosh back in the day. It was a pretty good book, but by now it's a bit dated since it assumes you're using an ancient version of CodeWarrior in System 7. I'm sure there are some good books on C out there, though, and even regardless of this, the differences in the IDE shouldn't be that much of a problem, anyway - the C language is still the same (although there might be some minor things not covered by an older book such as the Mark book, such as how to take command-line arguments, which wouldn't have existed in OS <=9).
Anyway, once you have a good understanding of C, I'd read Apple's PDF file on Objective-C as it is pretty concise and a quick read but nevertheless does a pretty good job explaining object orientation and the like. Once you've gotten this far, there are a lot of good books on Cocoa (Aaron Hillegass's book seems to get recommended a lot) and lots of info on the Web as well, such as http://www.stepwise.com/ and http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/.
Hope that helps,
Charles
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Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass are pretty much the only two books you need. You can get a lot from various web sites if you run into trouble.
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