Monthly Archives : August 2009

Objective-C, iPhone, Cocoa, and more Mac OS X fun

I just picked up Programming in Objective-C 2.0 - A complete introduction to the Objective-C language for Mac OS X and iPhone development by Stephen Kochan. So far I've made it through the first 2.5 chapters. I took classes in C, C++, and Java about 5-8 years ago, but it's been a while, and I'm having to relearn a lot. I've got two goals with this learning process. Rebuilding my computer programming knowledge, in order to stay semi-current with software design and development ideas. Gain a better technical knowledge of the Mac OS X and iPhone OS so that i can better support both and write a few small programs for each. Bonus: I know many people who have learned the Microsoft programming languages, but not as many in the Mac world. So maybe I could get  ahead of the curve with learning to program here? Hopefully I'll be able to keep pushing through and learning this content. Currently I've installed XTools and I've had a great deal of trouble with the iPhone SDK. I'm

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