In one of our Ask TUAW posts, we were asked about resources for learning how to develop applications on the Mac. We've previously mentioned Scott Stevenson and Cocoa Dev Central and now he's back with a very richly illustrated introductory Learn Cocoa tutorial that slowly takes you through building your first Cocoa application with Xcode, even if you have no prior experience. Now it's true that it's not much of an application in the end, but nonetheless it's a start, and a way to begin learning of the riches of Mac software development. So set aside a few minutes to run through the tutorial, and even if you're like me and barely know which end of Xcode is up, you too can say you've programmed for the Mac!
Scott asks for a donation if you find the tutorial worthwhile.
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1-23-2007 @ 4:49PM
mark said...
Excellent! If there's one thing bad about cocoa is that it's kinda difficult for newbies to pick up given every book on the market assumes you have previous C+ knowledge or something.
One day someone will make a killing writing a cocoa book for total newbies.
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1-23-2007 @ 5:04PM
derek said...
Cool post, thanks
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1-23-2007 @ 5:21PM
Nick said...
I've been working from Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming For OS X" and thus far it's been pretty good. Granted, I'm only three chapters in...
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1-23-2007 @ 9:31PM
NK said...
Great info - thanks so much. This is one of the Q's I believe I submitted. Can't wait to give it a bang :-)
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1-24-2007 @ 3:12AM
Steven said...
Well, this is basic. Realy basic. Drag and drop two things and you have a notepad. But I must say, it shows how easy programming for OS X can be.
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1-24-2007 @ 11:27PM
Tom Robinson said...
Eh, you don't exactly "learn Cocoa" with this tutorial. There is no programming involved. This just uses Interface Builder to make a VERY simple app with no code at all using a couple predefined objects.
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