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#1 2008-01-10 2:50 pm
- brooklynboy3
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Learn to Program in Cocoa?
Hi all:
I am new to the Mac, migrating from windows and have always wanted to program. I have no clue as to how.
I went out to the web but now I have less of a clue.
Is there a place one can at least start?
A SW friend of mine recommended Ruby on Rails but that too is a bit confusing. (To say the least.)
I know what you are thinking; this guy is too dumb to program. He is lucky he even knows how to breathe!
That possible but I want to give it a try. Any ideas as to how to even start?
brooklynboy3
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#2 2008-01-10 3:26 pm
- gander666
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Re: Learn to Program in Cocoa?
There is a couple decent books by O'Reilley Press. Search on cocoa programming.
They are pretty complete and start from virtually no knowledge (although some prior programming knowledge is extremely helpful).
Geoff
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#3 2008-01-11 10:35 am
- brooklynboy3
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Re: Learn to Program in Cocoa?
Thanks so much.
it is a good place to start.
Howard
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#4 2008-01-11 11:09 am
- Booksley
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Re: Learn to Program in Cocoa?
Ruby on Rails is web-specific. As a starting language, plain old Ruby or Python might not be such a bad idea, and they both come with OS X.
Edit - Why not get you started? Both Ruby and Python come with interactive prompts you can use to try things out.
Open up the Terminal application (Applications/Utilities).
For Ruby, type in 'irb' (no quotes)
For Python, type in 'python'
These interactive prompts let you try out both languages. You'll want to switch to using a text editor later, but these are good starting points.
Last edited by Booksley (2008-01-11 11:11 am)
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