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#1 2005-05-15 4:56 pm
Jump from C to Obj C
I've been doing quite a bit of C lately after taking a few courses last semester and I feel pretty comfortable with it, or enough to think that making the switch to Objective C to do some fun stuff in the graphical OS X world wouldn't be much of an issue.
My problem is that there seems to be very little documentation to help me get into it. I've messed with online tutorials and whatnot, but the code seems so arbitrary and are rarely explained past a brief overview. Does anyone know of a clear way to get started in XCode, preferably w/o buying a book (I'll pay if I HAVE to).
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#2 2005-05-15 6:06 pm
- skymt
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Re: Jump from C to Obj C
The XCode tools come with loads of documentation. Many, if not most, Cocoa developers start with the Currency Converter tutorial. To get to it, open XCode; Help > Documentation; Cocoa > Getting Started.
It provides a good hands-on introduction to basic object-oriented programming from a Cocoa perspective, plus it gives you something to show to your buddies and say, "I made this! Whoopie!".
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#3 2005-05-15 6:45 pm
Re: Jump from C to Obj C
Put down the cash for a book and you will save yourself ALOT of time+frustration. I think I wasted half a year starting way back when in the days of mac os 10.0, by just online+docs.
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#4 2005-05-16 10:37 am
- kaoss1103
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Re: Jump from C to Obj C
Yeah i went out and bought books stright away (wrong thing to do ) coz methodologys' change so quickly before you know it, you own a book thats not practical(and evan more work to firgure out the new methods for doing something). any way i've been teaching my self for two months know and the most joy i've had with it all, is finding the documentation (huge library) apple give you books on just about every aspect of development on a mac. From interface guidlines to memory management to Accessibility.
i mean theres alot there but if you've already learn't C you should find it alot simpler than me. i started teaching my self 2 month ago the only thing i new befor then was HTML a lill CSS and a lill Javascript. This is a mountain to climb but apple give you all the gear for your task.
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