Cocoa Programming
I’ve been getting right into programming again, as work is slow, projects have dried up due to lack of funds, I have some spare time, and I need a break to recharge and refocus. Working on a Mac has been a lot of fun, so I decided that I’d try some Cocoa programming.
The plan at this stage is to write an application to control a programmable timer system, and then expand this across to the iPad and iPhone.
So far, I’ve only managed to code an MVC architecture, using the architecture described in the book “Cocoa Design Patterns”. It’s very much a learning process for me at the moment, as Objective-C and Cocoa are new topics, but I’ve been hitting the books hard – eBooks in particular.
- Beginning Mac Programming (Tim Isted/Pragmatic Press)
- Cocoa Programming (Daniel H Steinberg/Pragmatic Press)
- Core Animation for Mac OSX and the iPhone (Bill Dudney/Pragmatic Press)
- Core Data (Marcus S Zara/Pragmatic Press)
- iPad Programming (Daniel H Steinberg/Pragmatic Press)
- iPhone SDK Development (Bill Dudney/Pragmatic Press)
- Cocoa Design Patterns (Eric M Buck/Pearson Press)
- Programming in Objective-C 2.0 2nd Ed. (Stephen G Kochan/Pearson Press)
Spending at least an hour each way on the train every day is good time for reading eBooks on the iPad.