Today I made my first Cocoa-based App for OS X. It’s called PieText.app, and is a very very simple text editor. It’s features are rich text, printing, a ‘clear all text’ button, and a special limited edition button, the Pie button. It prints a special message in the document.
It’s extremely basic, yes, but I figured out how to use XCode and make this app using this tutorial and this one. They are very well written and illustrated, and best of all, there are no prerequisites to doing them, no coding skillz or anything, they will teach you what you need to know.
There’s only two so far, but there’s a (not so) subtle hint that he’ll write more if people donate money to him.
If you are really serious about learning Cocoa, just go out and buy Aaron Hillegass’s book: http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-2nd/dp/0321213149/sr=8-1/qid=1171939215/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9203669-4786512?ie=UTF8&s=books .
It is hundreds of times better than any internet tutorial that you can find – yes, even better than Scott Stephenson’s tutorials.
It covers bindings, which are really cool, and document based applications which are necessary for many things.
– Logan Williams
Aweeeee welcome to the wonderful world of Cocoa development! 😀
Hillegass’ book is apparently very good, but I never read it. Recommended anyway. 🙂