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Re: What Should I learn Before Cocoa?

same here. I used to program Mac for fun in the days of MacOS 4 - MacOS 6.
Lightspeed Pascal, then later Think C. For the job, I then had to switch to
win32 and finally MFC. After 7 years of MFC, I can breathe it from all
sides. But I got so annoyed with some of its quirks (mostly the near
impossibility to work offscreen, the insane macro-based approach but also
the crashes no some systems (WindowsMe especially)) that I decided to go
back to my roots in my spare time. Especially since I have some weird,
unexplainable disgust for .NET...

I picked up 'cocoa programming' by Scott Anguish, which is a decent book,
but goes over too much stuff with sometimes not enough explanation IMHO.
Then again, experience has learned me that frameworks can not be learned by
books. I read at least 5 MFC books when I was a starter, but none of them
tought me as much as using the docs, the class browser or the debugger.

I still gotta get up to speed with cocoa (time time time !) but I hope XCode
will be as usefull in learning frameworks as DevStudio is.



> I understand the MVC philosophy, however, I am still a little slow in
> the learning how to implement it with PB/IB (Outlets and Actions)
> rather than a more connected method of development (DevStudio). Then
> again, it could just be that I have spent so much time in the MFC
> environment, much of it comes naturally now.. Who knows....
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