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Post #1 by flatcatch
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CategoryDevelopment
Post DateFri, 17 Jun 2005 - 23:44
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050723084022/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=260396
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I've been an Apple guy since forever, have always used a Mac at home (PB 15" 1.5Ghz w/ Tiger currently), and don't miss a day without reading the current Mac news sites. However, since getting out of college Windows has been paying the bills. Although I wrote some Mac software back in college that was good for some pizza money, rent money, and video game money, that was a LONG time ago (well, 9 years or so). I think I still have some of my Inside Macintosh books packed away.

So basically I'm a senior level Windows developer (extremely comfortable in C/C++, Win32, MFC, ATL, COM) and want to have "fun" and that means writing stuff for the Mac again.

Can anyone suggest some good places to start? Books? I was checking out The Mac Xcode 2 Book but it's not out yet it looks like. Maybe the best place to start is Apple's XCode documentation. I've read primers on Objective-C but it never really sinks in since I never put it to use - but that will change soon.

I imagine the hardest part will be getting used to a new IDE after having used Visual Studio for such a long time.
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