Re: Cocoa newbie query
Re: Cocoa newbie query
- Subject: Re: Cocoa newbie query
- From: "Brian E. Howard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:18:36 -0400
A "newbie" on this list is someone with a CS degree and several years
of experience with an object-oriented language like C++ or Java. What
you are is a beginner, and there is nothing on-line, or in the Apple
docs, or in books yet written, for beginners. Everything is geared to
folks who already understand Cocoa (Apple Docs) or real newbies
(on-line stuff and books). As a beginner myself this situation used to
really piss me off, but after many months I came to realize that it is
what it is and bitching about it won't help. The best I can recommend
is to get Aaron Hillegass' book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
published by Addison Wesley. Even though he states in the preface that
"This book is written for programmers who already know C++ or Java and
are curious about Cocoa.", I have learned more from Aaron than all the
rest put together--and I own _all_ the Cocoa books available, save one
which I sent back to Amazon as being totally worthless. The other
thing I find helpful is to design simple, almost do nothing apps, that
only use one-or-two Cocoa objects or techniques; or take one of the
simple examples like the Mike Beam stuff and try and add one thing, or
change one thing. Hope this helps, and good luck.
Brian E. Howard
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:50 AM, Deb Mohan wrote:
Hi,
This is an absolutely newbie question. I have no development
experience on Mac OS. Yes I did c programming on UNIX long back and
then moved on to Macromedia Director.
I have recently got myself a new Mac and got the developer tools along
with it. I tried reading a lot of material online to help me learn
cocoa development like Mike Beam's tutorials on O'Reilly,
cocoadevcenter articles and not forgetting Apple docs.
Frankly I have not made much headway as the whole paradigm of Cocoa
development still doesn't sink in. I have figured the MVC model. It is
as good as it gets for me.
To cut the long story short can some one help me find resources that
could make it a little easier for a developer like me.
Would some one have a little guidance so that I could figure how I can
possibly contribute my bit to cocoa development with Objective-C.
Regards,
Deb
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