C.44 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Hi guys, i'm looking for some decent, indepth beginner tutorials. Not tutorials created in 2001. Why ? I'm an avid PHP/MySQL coder that got sick of dealing with browsers and their quirks(modes). I need a standard environment to program in. Since i have 10.6.2 on here i figured i might aswell get into XCode/Cocoa. I basically want to write a program i can use for my own business. I need to keep track of my clients and suppliers. And while i know there are programs out there that let me manage some parts of that, i haven't found anything that does it all. So if anything, i'd have to create it myself. Now normally i'd fire up TextMate, create a mysql database and start writing php but i really don't want to spend 5 days bugfixing css and jquery {censored} for every 3 hours of phpcode. So XCode/Cocoa it is. But the problem is that i can't find any decent tutorials anywhere that aren't nearly 10 years old or even go into the subject matter deep enough. Other "tutorials" seem to only hint you in a certain direction, but if you really have no idea what they're going on about... most of that info isn't coming across. I've done the CurrencyConverter tutorial but i am really at a loss as for where to go next. Basically i need to find out how to create a window with a tableview of data loaded preferably from a central datastorage. Much like how php can use mysql databases as a source of data. Since the program will eventually run on at least two different computers, i figured a mysql server would be a good idea. I'm open for suggestions though, especially since i haven't found anything explaining how to make a connection between a Cocoa app and a mysql database. Anyway, excuse me for the long story, but i really have no idea where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.44 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Absolutely nothing ? I recently bought Aarron Hillegass 3rd edition of "Cocoa programming for Mac OS X" and so far i love the book. Haven't finished it yet (not by a long shot) but what book should i be looking into after this one ? Any and all suggestions are welcome as i really want to understand the language so i can actually do something with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMarq09 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook Found at http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321639634 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyong Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 I've just recently started getting into iPhone development. Come from a Java background and objective C is very different. However the textbook I picked up off Amazon is worth its weight in gold. I'd really recommend it as I also looked at tutorials and they are too superficial in general and allow you to learn a few basics, but not enough to form a solid foundation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bipolarpants Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Iphone Appilaction Development is a very good book with full color pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xan21 Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 You can find "beginning mac programming" by Tim Isted floating around the internet or bookstore. Its up to date (SDK 3.0) and very well written and useful i just finished it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumaSpeedDrift Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Another good book is "Programming in Objective-C 2.0" Stephen Kochan, then follow up with "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 3rd Edition", then if your going to do iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch development, get the next book for a great set of reference, "iPhone Developers Cookbook 2nd Edition" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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