Best place to start with Mac Development

[Adam]

Hello,

What's the best place to start with Mac Development?

I've been trying to find the time for a couple of years to start
working on some Mac Apps but haven't really looked into it enough. I
got round to registering with Apple and then other events took over.

Cocoa? Is that the best thing to work in or is there better?

Some time ago I used to do VB programming and I'm use to PHP.

Any pointers greatly appreciated! Who knows, this year might be the
year I actually write the thing I want to!

[Simon Maddox]

Hey Adam,

The best book, in my opinion, is Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-X/dp/0321503619/

It's a brilliant introduction for beginners, and will give you the knowledge you need to start building both Mac apps and iOS apps.

Also take a look at developer.apple.com/mac, but the information there can often be a bit too in-depth for beginners.

Hope it helps!

Simon

[Adam]

Thanks Simon. Hilliegass rang a bell and lo and behold I have the
book :p Must have got further along than I thought. It hasn't been
read so that can go in with the pile of Christmas reading!

[Nick Charlton]

I'm a good way into Cocoa Programming by Daniel H Steinberg (http://
www.amazon.co.uk/Cocoa-Programming-Quick-Start-Developers-Programmers/dp/1934356301/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1294494808&sr=8-2
or http://www.pragprog.com/titles/dscpq/cocoa-programming).

It's a good book if you're already competent developing for other
platforms, and so far has provided enough exercises, and handholding
to make learning relatively fast for me.

Nick.

On Jan 8, 1:49 pm, Simon Maddox <si...@simonmaddox.com> wrote:

[Adam]

Thanks Nick - will take a look at that one too.

On Jan 8, 1:55 pm, Nick Charlton <nickcharlto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a good way into Cocoa Programming by Daniel H Steinberg (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cocoa-Programming-Quick-Start-Developers-Programmers...
> orhttp://www.pragprog.com/titles/dscpq/cocoa-programming).