Tutorials or books?
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Old 06-25-2008, 04:11 AM
Mosquixel Mosquixel is offline
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Hello,
I know that there is not a soul here yet, but does anyone know of some good tutorials for users new to Objective-C. I'm having a bit of trouble with it. I've taken an Introductory class to programming, but it deal only with C#.
My focus on learning Objective-C is for interactive websites. Xcode 3 is a bit tricky, but after playing around with it for a while now, I don't suspect it'll be too hard to get familiar with.
I hope to see more people here soon!
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Old 06-25-2008, 06:02 AM
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Hi, welcome to the forum. We are just getting started.

I actually taught myself objective-c after only writing c# and c++ for years. I actually read a book by Jonathan Zdziarski (one of the first people to hack iPhone) that had a great overview of how to do basic things in objective-c that was easy for anyone that knew another c language to understand. I also read through a lot of sample code after that and was able to pick up on it fairly quickly.

I would say find a good book on the subject and collect as much code as you can from the internet and read through it.

You might want to get a MacOS/Cocoa specific book, but if you are interested in the book I mentioned above you can find it on Amazon here: Amazon.com: iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone: Jonathan Zdziarski: Books
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Old 06-25-2008, 02:31 PM
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Thanks Jon,

I might have to give that book a look. I'm not really looking into developing anything for the iPhone, well, now that I think about it, I might. Anyways, thank you for the quick reply.
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Old 06-26-2008, 01:45 AM
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It is worth a look. Lets just say that if you learn Cocoa for Mac OS you will know how to program for the iPhone, and the other way around.
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Old 12-02-2008, 08:48 AM
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I'd recomend the "Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX" by Aaron Hillegass (Third Edition). Objective-C is really the first language I have learnt, and even though the book is designed for someone that already knows C, I was able to pick it up.

Its stuctured so that not only does it give you example programmes to work through, but also a challenge at the end of some chapters, to put into practice what you have learnt. All in all, a very good book.

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