Re: [CocoaHeads-discuss] Hello World

[Randall M. <Coc...@no...>]

On May 18, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Nathan wrote:

> Is anybody there?
>
> I'm an absolute Cocoa newbie, but I'd love to learn.  If anyone's
> listening, could you please recommend a good place to start?
>
> I have run through Apple's "currency converter" tutorial last year,
> but that's it so far.

I highly recommend Aaron Hillegass' just-released third edition of  
"Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X".  It'll get you up to speed on ObjC,  
as well as some of the newer stuff released with Leopard.  I was a  
seasoned programmer, but new to Cocoa and ObjC; Apple's books just  
didn't do it for me, but after about a day and a half with Aaron's  
book, it just "clicked".  Very readable, examples build upon itself as  
he goes along.  This January I went to his Big Nerd Ranch for more in- 
depth training, and regret it not one iota.

Start there, then move on to Apple's conceptual documents (those  
pertaining to your area of interest), and then use the API references  
to fill in the gaps.  Apple's Cocoa-Dev mailing list is very helpful,  
but only if you'd really tried to help yourself first.  Meaning:  
search the archives for similar posts first, and make sure you've read  
the conceptual docs before you post a question.

Good luck.