Best way to learn Cappuccino for someone new to client-side development?

[Mike MacCana]

Hi all,

I've been programming Python for a while, and used JSON and traditional web frameworks, but have very little client-side development experience. After seeing Cappuccino at FOWA, it seems to be a better fit for my projects than traditional templating + javascript focused development, but it's hard finding resources that just teach objective J without prior knowledge of Javascript.

- I've read there's a book on the way, though back in March [1] this was mentioned as being delayed till after the Atlas release. Any updates on the situation now that Atlas is about to come out?

- I hear some existing Cocoa or Objective C books may be useful. Which ones specifically do people recommend?

- Alternatively, would anyone in London like to do a paid introduction to Cappuccino?

- Any plans for a Cappucino conference at some point?

Thanks,

Mike

1. http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej/browse_thread/thread/1dfe769b8f8af611?pli=1

[Saikat Chakrabarti]

For starters, I found the tutorial for objective-j here very helpful
for people without objective-c or javascript experience -
http://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/objective-j-tutorial.php .

There is also a community blog at cappuccino flow -
http://cappuccinoflow.com/ . Thomas Balthazar's cappuccino casts are
especially enlightening - http://cappuccinocasts.com/ . As are the
other tutorials listed here - http://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/ .

But in general, documentation and tutorials are still an area in which
cappuccino is trying to get better.

[Mike MacCana]

Thanks. I've seen the objective j tutorial, alas due to the aforementioned lack of client programming experience I was wondering if there was something that taught Objective J out of the box, without requiring prior Javascript knowledge.

[Maz]

You might want to check out Cocoa (Objective-C) with the Python
bridge. Althougth this won't help with the language, it will give you
an idea about Cocoa (and conversely Cappuccino).

On Nov 1, 6:43 am, Mike MacCana <mike.macc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. I've seen the objective j tutorial, alas due to the aforementioned
> lack of client programming experience I was wondering if there was something
> that taught Objective J out of the box, without requiring prior Javascript
> knowledge.
>

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Saikat Chakrabarti <saik...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For starters, I found the tutorial for objective-j here very helpful
> > for people without objective-c or javascript experience -
> >http://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/objective-j-tutorial.php.
>
> > There is also a community blog at cappuccino flow -

> >http://cappuccinoflow.com/.  Thomas Balthazar's cappuccino casts are
> > especially enlightening -  http://cappuccinocasts.com/.  As are the

> > other tutorials listed here -http://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/.
>
> > But in general, documentation and tutorials are still an area in which
> > cappuccino is trying to get better.
>

> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Mike MacCana <mike.macc...@gmail.com>

> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've been programming Python for a while, and used JSON and traditional
> > web
> > > frameworks, but have very little client-side development experience.
> > After
> > > seeing Cappuccino at FOWA, it seems to be a better fit for my projects
> > than
> > > traditional templating + javascript focused development, but it's hard
> > > finding resources that just teach objective J without prior knowledge of
> > > Javascript.
> > > - I've read there's a book on the way, though back in March [1] this was
> > > mentioned as being delayed till after the Atlas release. Any updates on
> > the
> > > situation now that Atlas is about to come out?
> > > - I hear some existing Cocoa or Objective C books may be useful. Which
> > ones
> > > specifically do people recommend?
> > > - Alternatively, would anyone in London like to do a paid introduction to
> > > Cappuccino?
> > > - Any plans for a Cappucino conference at some point?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> > > 1.

> >http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej/browse_thread/thread/1dfe76...

[Jerod Santo]

Hi Mike-

I've also been learning Capp & Objective-J from scratch and have compiled a few resources I've used along the way. Perhaps something there will be of assistance to you:

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/learning-cappuccino-a-linked-list/

Jerod Santo
http://jerodsanto.net

[Mike MacCana]

Sorry Jerod, meant to say thanks very much for this (as well as the authors of the other blog tutorials), they've been really helpful.