I have some time ago, already looked at Objective-C and Cocoa, the framework from Apple, but never stayed strictly with my learning objectives. One reason was maybe that the book I have bought was based on an old version of XCode, this made it really heavy to follow the exercises.
Now I have some spare time and I started a new try. With other tutorials and the right books for my version of XCode. But I had to recognise soon, that I have first to read some basics about the programming in C or Objective-C before I could go on with the book about Cocoa.
And I have found a good introductory guide to XCode and Objective-C on the forum of macscripter.net. It is called Become an XCoder, written by Bert Altenburg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin and is free for download.
I was impressed about the easy kind of reading this book is, even if the authors try to teach you some programming skills. And what impressed me most (and made me write this short blog post immediately) is the preface, where the authors (some real Mac addicts) talk about how to help to promote Apple as (my) favourite computer platform.
With this short reading (only about 69 pages long) you have a solid overview on how Objective-C works and you can go on with more complex projects or read another free PDF manual, like Apple Script for Absolute Starters
Enjoy and please let me know about your experiences!
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