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RE: New to Cocoa
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RE: New to Cocoa


  • Subject: RE: New to Cocoa
  • From: Tom Davie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:05:42 +0100

> Hi,
> I just recently decided to start developing on Mac so I
> am wondering where I
> should start. Is there a book I could buy (Learning Cocoa w/
> Obj-C maybe?)? Or
> maybe a tutorial?
>
> Also, I heard that Cocoa is slower than using Carbon? I
> am planning on maybe
> making a simple 3D Game using OpenGL do I use Cocoa for this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joey

The airon Heilglass book comes highly recommended by most parties (although
I can't say I've ever read it). A lot of people dislike apple's "Learning
Cocoa" book, personally, I think it's quite good, but I havn't read the
competition.

As far as I know, cocoa is faster than carbon because OS X is designed to
use Cocoa and has to be bent around corners to make it do carbon.
However... cocoa is about 10x easier to write than carbon and is certainly a
lot more enjoyable to do. OpenGL is very quick under cocoa - I'm in the
middle of writing a couple of GL apps in cocoa at the moment.

In short... yes, use cocoa... it's great :D

Bob
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