Re: Hello
Re: Hello
- Subject: Re: Hello
- From: David Blanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:12:14 -0700
On 2/15/03 7:28 PM, "Karl Kuehn" <email@hidden> wrote:
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My recommendation would be to start out with AppleScript Studio. It
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will get you into programming with a user interface pretty quickly
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without requiring you to deal with many of the harder topics too soon.
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At the same time ASStudio gets you used to the power offered in Cocoa
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programming (both ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder), and as you feel
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more confident you can start to integrate Obj-C code into your
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projects, one step at a time (for example to speed up some sections).
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I will say that a small database application will put you smack dab
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into the more difficult parts of the user interface code (it is well
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written stuff... just a little steep on the first couple of steps). For
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starting out with AppleScript Studio there are some great guides
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written by apple (look in the Developer:Documentation folder on you
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HD), some nice tutorials, and a few great lists.
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If you want to go whole hog on Obj-C, then I would recommend the
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Vermont Recipes site, "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and
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Ritchie, and a few reads through the Obj-C stuff in the included
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documentation on your HD...
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Karl Kuehn
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email@hidden
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On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 06:25 PM, Steve Kellener wrote:
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> I am a long time NeXT and Mac "user". I have been using both
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> professionally for years. I finally would like to take a crack at
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> writing a small application for Mac OS X. I would like to write my
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> own database program. I was thinking about making one for DVD
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> collections since I have not seen any that I have liked. Being an
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> artist I would like to work the interface the most . I'm not looking
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> to catalog the human genome or anything ;-) Just a small tool to try
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> out for fun. To all of you pro and amateur developers, what is the
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> best way to get started? The most I have ever done in the way of
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> writing code is HTML and using unix scripts.
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If you are talented then get Aaron Hillegass' book Cocoa Programming for Mac
OS X. (The background stuff is accurate and informative.)
There is an O'Reilly book on Cocoa programming ... The more references and
examples the better.
And, developer.apple.com/documentation or something like that.
Lastly, perseverance.
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