Newbie to mac programing-orienatation needed, no technical question yet
hi
i want to build nice looking apps like rapidweaver for my engineering courses and was wondering where to start.....
i have had one c++ course(no objective-c though) a couple of years back but in windows....and i am currently reading "learn c in the mac" form spiderworks.i am starting to remeber what i learned and learn new stuff..link here:
http://www.spiderworks.com/books/learncmac.php
where do you guys recomend i go after this?
i read something a big nerd ranch course for cocoa programming....it's expensive 3.5k but i am sure it's worth it...
has anyone done that course or have any other recomendations on wehre to go from here
thanks a lot
jtarud
Hi!!
You can even read things from apple; you can download pdfs and read something interesting.
For example: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/index.html and start in the "Getting Started" part and "Fundamentals". These topics will give you a way to explore.
You can learn Carbon also: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/index.html for your C++ code.
And then you can Mix Objective-C, C and even C++ to get your application flying!!
Objective-C for the interface (usind Interface Builder) and Mix it with you C or C++ code for special behavior - this could be you model (in Objective-C policy!!).
Hope i help!! C U!!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) + iMac G3
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