[G4] Programming for Mac OS X

[Daniel Brieck]

David,

The programming tools are probably not significantly different in 
panther when compared to Jaguar's. However, you should go with the most 
current tools and wait for Pathers' xcode. Then the programming/methods 
  that you learn will be "more" valid for the next year and a half. That 
is one thing bad about programming is that you have to learn the basics 
and then re apply that to changing software and environments.  Very 
little stays exactly the same for any extended amounts of time when it 
comes to computer programming. So go with the current stuff learn it 
will and then keep adapting to what is next....

Dan Brieck Jr.

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 12:51  PM, David DelMonte wrote:

> Thanks everyone for answering my question. Next one: should I buy the 
> current book edition or wait for Panther versions? Are the programming 
> tools from Apple going to be significantly different in 10.3?
>
> Thanks again
>
> David
>
> On Oct 9, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Brooks Graham wrote:
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>> On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 03:59  AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
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>>> And don't forget that the gcc compiler/linker is there and ready if
>>> you want to try some things out from a command line without a bunch 
>>> of
>>> GUI development.
>>>
>>> A nice thing about OS neXt for us old farts is that things we did 
>>> like
>>> punched card FORTRAN and COBOL actually work much the same way in 
>>> ANSI
>>> C.
>>
>> Oh my!  Don't scare the people!  ;-)
>>
>> My USD0.02: (for anyone thinking about jumping into Cocoa development)
>> Don't think that just because the Apple-supplied development tools are
>> free, that they are somehow far inferior to expensive commercial ones.
>> Quite the contrary.  I started with them somewhere around NeXT 0.9 and
>> continue to love them.  What's coming in Panther is even better (now
>> that it's announced, I suppose it's less of an NDA violation to say
>> that it's tres cool).
>>
>> Also, if you want to start doing some Cocoa, the first book you should
>> buy is "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass.   Also, a
>> fairly decent Objective-C "book" is included with the dev tools in pdf
>> form.  That's really all you need to get started.
>>
>> Cocoa is a very clean and straightforward development environment.  I
>> encourage anyone with even the slightest interest to check it out.
>>
>> - -brooks
>>
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>>>
>> - -
>> Brooks Graham
>> brooksgraham at mac.com
>> http://www.brooksgraham.com/
>>
>> Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
>>   - H. Berlioz