Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #25
Regarding Java vs. Obj-C: The reality of the market is that there are three primary platforms - Windows, Mac, and Linux. In order to reduce development and service costs, you wan…
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Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #26
Register as an Apple Developer with the free Online Membership! You will be able to download the Developer Tools to work with the MacOS X beta. The Public Beta does not include t…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #27
Apple has been pushing Carbon as an transitory technology but they really should not be. Carbon is maturing into a lot more than a simple way to move OS9 apps to OSX. The develop…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #28
Wow. I have half an iota of what is being discussed in this thread, but it is incredibly interesting.
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #29
I just wanted to let you guys know that the sun java tools/compiler is included with the public beta, so if you can bear the command line, you can start out developing in java with…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #30
Carbon is the traditional MacOS 8/9 API updated for OS X. For a new programmer it has a steep learning curve.
Cocoa is the traditional NeXTStep API updated for OS X. Cocoa is also…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #31
Slider wrote (way up in this thread):
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OK, what would you recommend I use to learn UNIX on my Mac? I would be starting from scratch.
I'm in somewhat th…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #32
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #33
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #34
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'…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #35
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #36
The only thing about Real Basic is that it creates HUGE files, doesn't it? Ive been shocked to find 9MB Real Basic Apps.
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #37
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #38
I'm learning C++ in HS on Win NT based machines... Am I 'corrupting my mind'?
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #39
The "Wired" site.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,38736,00.html
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #40
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #41
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 …
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #42
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 …
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #43
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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #44
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Consider Photoshop. It started out as a MacApp application. But as the company grew, they had to own more of the code -- and ditched …
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #45
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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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #46
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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 …
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #47
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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…
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #48
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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 …
Learning to Writing Code for OSX — #49
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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…