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Learning Mac programming
Name: DaveyBoy Date: April 3, 2005 at 11:29:35 Pacific OS: OS 10.3 CPU/Ram: G4/256
Comment:
I'm interested in Learning Mac programming. What's your advice? Any book or website recommendation?
Name: MikeG Date: April 3, 2005 at 17:35:47 Pacific
Reply:
Mac programming is not any than PC programming if you are new to the programming world, so you proabaly should have posted in the "Programming Fourm" here at Computing.net Anyway, I suggest a goole search for "C++ tutorial" and getting a free Mac compiler (try XCode, which comes with OS 10.3) to start off. If you don't have any programming backround, be prepared to take on a large task in learning a programming language - it's quite complex.
-MikeG
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Response Number 2
Name: anonproxy Date: April 5, 2005 at 00:17:55 Pacific
Reply:
Apple has good documentation and some very nice APIs.
The language depends on your level of seriousness. Regular development is done in C++, Objective-C, Java, and C. Objective-C is where OSX might be said to have an edge, because one major object API known as Cocoa takes good advantage of Obj-C. The straight C/C++ alternative would be Carbon (useful for porting pre-OSX or other platform code).
If you don't mind sticking to mostly OSX, Obj-C can be a rewarding language to use.
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