Re: Starting Cocoa development - Developing for Jaguar
Re: Starting Cocoa development - Developing for Jaguar
- Subject: Re: Starting Cocoa development - Developing for Jaguar
- From: James Duncan Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:16:46 -0700
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:45 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote:
I want to start learning Objective-C and Cocoa. But, I also was to be
developing for Jaguar also (or taking advantage of as many native
features
as possible)
If you want to get started, you should just dive in with the April dev
tools under OS X 10.1.5, pick up a book, and dive in. Jaguar will be out
soon enough to go take advantage of the features in it, but you're going
to need a bit of time to just learn ObjC and how Cocoa goes together.
What's there now isn't changing that much, it's just been added to.
The only "language" change for Jaguar is that you can now declare
variables anywhere in a block instead of at the top of the block -- and
that's thanks to GCC3 which is in the April Dev tools and works just
fine under 10.1.5. Follow the release notes in the April tools to enable
GCC3.
The other things are just additional APIs--nice to have, but they won't
help you learn the language and you won't miss out while you are
learning.
3. I have a G4-400 with 2 gigs of RAM and the original 16 meg video
card.
This machine should be OK? Any advantage of upgrading to a ATI RADEON
8500?
Hardware acceleration?
You got enough memory. :) You'll prolly want that new ATI (or a new
nVidia) card for Jaguar.
4. the best book out there is?
There's many. I'm partial to my own, but it won't be out until
September. :) In the meantime each of the books have their stregnths and
weaknesses. I actually recommend working through a couple so that you
get a picture of the various facets of Cocoa.
One other problem is that I don't know what to develop really. I have
many
interests, but I want to develop something useful. I have about 6 years
of
C++ on Windows and I am currently doing/learning Java development.
Any thoughts on useful tools to develop?
Develop something that scratches one of your itches. Need a secure text
program? Write it. Want a newsreader and don't like the ones out there?
write it. Screen savers are fun to write too. :)
.duncan
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