I'd love to learn Cocoa, it seems like the best systems language for Mac OS X.
Can you recommend any useful ways to learn the language? Books, websites, example projects or even classes to take?
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Andy Matuschak has a great blog post that leads you through several good Cocoa tutorials, explaining why you are reading each one.
Cocoa Dev Central has loads of tutorials.
For books, I echo Dave and Phillip Bowden with Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.
Steve Johnson
2008-09-15 23:20:01
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is a great book that covers Objective-C and many of the frameworks that make up Cocoa. Most Cocoa programmers I know learned from this book (including myself). The third edition was released recently, so it's fairly up to date. Good luck.
Phillip Bowden
2008-09-15 23:27:17
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Be sure to check out http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder. It goes from the very fundamentals of programming to learning Cocoa, Xcode and more.
Scott S.
2008-09-15 23:30:14
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Buy a book, open XCode, and write. Seriously, writing is the best way to learn Cocoa. In addition, I recommend Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X!
duane
2008-09-15 23:32:27
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- Read and follow the Become an Xcoder tutorial.
- Read Cocoa Programming for the Mac OS X and type in all the code.
- You can also watch CocoaCast if you would like to watch how programming is done instead of just reading it.
- The Cocoa documentation in apple's developer website is also a very good resource. Work your way on the Cocoa and Objective-C conceptual guides and work out the samples.
- Finally, just practice and apply what you've read/seen on your own application.
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I have been working on learning Cocoa myself recently and have found Apple's own Cocoa resources to be incredibly helpful.
For example projects I have spent quite a bit of time in the Adium source. Adium is a relatively large project so I am very often able to find examples of whichever concept I am interested in.
The CocoaDev wiki can also be quite useful.
Bradley Harris
2008-09-15 23:49:14
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thanks so much for the wonderful answers! I'm starting with the blog post by Andy Matuschak
mike511
2008-09-16 15:52:02
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Would you guys recommend the same book for learning iPhone development or another book?
Buffernet
2009-03-31 16:56:10
You should post this as a question, not an answer on another question.
Peter Hosey
2009-03-31 17:12:23
yeah good call, thanks peter
Buffernet
2009-03-31 21:49:51