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Please recommend a good reference to start OS X programming

Asked by DropZone in Apple Programming, Cocoa Programming Language, General Macintosh Programming

Tags: programming win32 apple xcode switch

I am a programmer with over 15 years experience in many different languages. During the past 10 years I've been doing mostly Win32 programming and have become rather good at it (low level stuff, not the point-and-clicky, component aggregation stuff).

I switched to Macs for personal use a couple of years ago, and now I want to learn to program for OS X. However, I have no idea how to go about this. I've heard that the language of choice is Objective-C, with which I am not familiar. I am, however, familiar with C++ and other Object Oriented languages; but I understand that it is a completely different paradigm than building applications for Win32. I recently installed and opened XCode and was completely lost.

I've bought a few books and read a few tutorials, but they seem either incomplete, or too simplistic, concentrating on clicking menus and automatic code generation stuff. I'm always left not knowing what the heck is going.

I would appreciate if any of you could offer some resources that will point me in the right direction. Web sites with tutorials are fine, but reference books are better. What I'm looking for is the OS X and Objective-C programming analog of the K&R book for C, or the Camel book for Perl: good instructional books which serve also as reference, that contain not only the things you need to know, but the explain the underworkings of the system.

Keep in mind that I've been tainted by the Win32 API and the broken model of Windows development, so understanding a new way of doing things may take some effort.

I will split the points amongst the better recommendations.

Thanks,
-dZ.

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Please recommend a good reference to start OS X programming

Asked by DropZone in Apple Programming, Cocoa Programming Language, General Macintosh Programming

Tags: programming win32 apple xcode switch

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