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Dumb it Down a little for me please!
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<blockquote data-quote="Andre" data-source="post: 705210" data-attributes="member: 55311"><p>I am a computer science student, so I have done some programming in the past. My main language was C and C++. This summer, I decided I wanted to take the plunge to Mac, so I bought my first MBP and started to learn what "coding for Mac" would mean.</p><p>Depending on what you are doing, I highly doubt that you want to create a Carbon application. I would highly recommend you learn a little bit of C (specifically: variables, loops, functions, and pointers) and then move on to learn Objective-C and Cocoa. C++ is ok if you only use a small subset of the functionality, but after a while using it, it gets ridiculously complicated, and it's messy. Also, Objective-C is what makes a Mac a Mac. Mail and Safari were written in Objective-C, and more and more applications will be dropping Carbon in the next couple years.</p><p>If you are really serious about learning to code for Mac, may I recommend you get the book Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd edition). I think you can probably get an e-book of it, but I'm not sure, since I bought my copy only days after it was released.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andre, post: 705210, member: 55311"] I am a computer science student, so I have done some programming in the past. My main language was C and C++. This summer, I decided I wanted to take the plunge to Mac, so I bought my first MBP and started to learn what "coding for Mac" would mean. Depending on what you are doing, I highly doubt that you want to create a Carbon application. I would highly recommend you learn a little bit of C (specifically: variables, loops, functions, and pointers) and then move on to learn Objective-C and Cocoa. C++ is ok if you only use a small subset of the functionality, but after a while using it, it gets ridiculously complicated, and it's messy. Also, Objective-C is what makes a Mac a Mac. Mail and Safari were written in Objective-C, and more and more applications will be dropping Carbon in the next couple years. If you are really serious about learning to code for Mac, may I recommend you get the book Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd edition). I think you can probably get an e-book of it, but I'm not sure, since I bought my copy only days after it was released. [/QUOTE]
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