Re: Getting started
Re: Getting started
- Subject: Re: Getting started
- From: Citizen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:57:55 +0100
Hi Peter,
On 26 Jun 2007, at 15:10, Peter Naish wrote:
I'm an occasional programmer, producing small applications almost
always for my own use. I grew up on OS 9 and earlier, with Inside
Macintosh Volumes 1 to 6 as my bible and using Think Pascal. Now I
really must move onto the new platforms and OS X, and presumably
using C (I have never gone Object Oriented, so now is probably not
the time to start). It's gong to be a steep learning curve,
becoming familiar with a different language in a new IDE!
In the absence of a nice little book called "Learning to use C with
X-Code" does anyone have advice for me as to the best way forward?
This is my opinion, I already know there will be some that will
disagree ;-)
With a grounding in Pascal, I believe raw C will be much harder to
pick up than Objective-C would be.
The following book makes it especially easy:
Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan
The object orientedness of the language is unlikely to be as big a
problem as you would imagine. Your biggest hurdles will be getting
used to the square bracket syntax of objective-C. And memory
management (which will no longer be a necessary problem when Leopard
comes out).
Everything else should map relatively nicely with your Pascal knowledge.
Then if you enjoy that experience, you may want to start learning
about the Cocoa frameworks and GUI apps with:
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass
All (Reasonable!) suggestions gratefully received.
Hope this is reasonable,
Dave
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David Kennedy (http://www.zenopolis.com)
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