I figured that I would chime in on these developer comments here. I just got into programing near the begining of this year. Therefore, I'm not an expert, feel free to correct me i…

One of the main advantages of Cocoa\Objective C is that it turns the whole OS into something similar to Lisp\Smalltalk machines. In those machines, since everything is an object i…

My personal favorite would be REALbasic. Right now it compiles for Classic, Carbon, and Windows (although Windows is a bit rocky). They are working on full support for MacOS X. It'…

Several people suggested getting one's feet wet in the Unix waters by installing and playing with Linux. Linux is fine, but FreeBSD would be better. OSX uses as its core the Mac…

The only thing about Real Basic is that it creates HUGE files, doesn't it? Ive been shocked to find 9MB Real Basic Apps.

BTW- Thanks to everyone who has posted their comments. This has become a great resource to me, as I had also been curious about Cocoa. I believe that the ongoing success of the Ma…

I'm learning C++ in HS on Win NT based machines... Am I 'corrupting my mind'?

The "Wired" site. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,38736,00.html

Another approach may be to try http://www.codewarrioru.com/CodeWarriorU/ I have never taken their programming coarses but they may be helpful and it is totally free. Free is goo…

It seems to me that the first step to learning to program is learning the basic concepts and structures used in programming- variables, repeat loops, if-then statments, eventually …

If you want to get into programming and learn how to think objects, then REALbasic (www.realbasic.com) is a good way to go, but it does have fundamental stability problems. I have …

Thank you everyone for your replies to this post. I have just received VPC Linux from outpost and am waiting for the books. I have saved all of your links an have already visited…

Quote: Originally posted by an on: Consider Photoshop. It started out as a MacApp application. But as the company grew, they had to own more of the code -- and ditched …

Quote: Originally posted by Jekyll: Java is what you should use on Mac OS X. The complete Java Development Kit for Java 2 is on there, you get the Aqua inteface for fre…

Quote: Originally posted by slider: If I wanted to learn to write code for the next OS, should I pick-up code warrior for the current OS or learn UNIX, or both. I have …

Quote: Originally posted by tombarta: I'd go simpler still: learn to write tight, complete Applescript. If you hate Applescript, programming in general will probably not…

Quote: Originally posted by aaron from blackholemedia: Apple has been pushing Carbon as an transitory technology but they really should not be. Carbon is maturing into …

Quote: Originally posted by rodrigo_la: The only thing about Real Basic is that it creates HUGE files, doesn't it? Ive been shocked to find 9MB Real Basic Apps. I'd…

Have any books been published for programming in: Cocoa, Carbon, or Webobjects? I find myself aspiring to be a macintosh programmer when I graduate in December. And by the looks …

Does anyone know how to install php scripting support for OS X Beta/Apache?

No, but I'm interesed too.. also installing SQL to self-teach it, as well as Samba. If people are interested, I may start a web page with how-tos on compiling MySQL and PHP on MacO…

Last time I checked, part of the build process for PHP4 was broken under Darwin/MacOSX.

PHP 3.016 will compile on DP4 and I am assuming that once the developer tools are released it will continue to compile on the public beta. PHP4 would not compile on DP4 due to iss…

I'd love to read more about using PHP and MySQL on OS X

I'd be interested as well.