These last few weeks, I’ve been teaching myself Cocoa to learn what makes Mac OS X and iPhone OS apps tick. While Objective-C is quite a departure from my usual web development world, Cocoa has quickly become one of my favorite languages, as it takes care of much of the drudgery of pure C and has plenty of useful frameworks to get your application up and running quickly. Here are some of the best resources I’ve found so far:
- Cocoa Dev Central and Become an Xcoder are both excellent tutorials for beginners, written in a clear, straightforward manner. They also explain the ins and outs of memory management, which is critical on platforms like the iPhone and iPod touch.
- Stanford’s CS193P lecture notes and examples have proven to be one of the best resources for learning Cocoa, particularly for the iPhone. These notes and tests offer Cocoa Touch in bite-size chunks, with a little bit of “on your own” work to ensure you know your stuff before moving on.
- Google Code Search is a good last resort for examples of how others are using a small bit of code or a particular class. For more accurate results, append “lang:objectivec” to your search string to narrow results to only Objective-C code.
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Thanks for sharing this resource Collin. If I ever get to learning this stuff, it’ll be nice to use these links. Wouldn’t be the last time I came back to your site many moons later digging for something I read in a post…
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[…] Developing for Mac and iPhone I’ve been thinking about teaching myself Cocoa programming in hopes of developing for the iPhone so the following blog entry from Command-Tab may be use full. Learning Cocoa for the iPhone […]
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An excellent set of resources that I can share with my students learning iPhone development at No Fluff Just Stuff and user groups.
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Do not forget about all the great Cocoa blogs, for example our new savoy blog
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A few:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com
http://icodeblog.com/
http://theocacao.com/document.page/510
Apple’s sample code and documentation is also fairly well done.
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