Programming In OS X Tutorials

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The Tutorials listed below began as notes to myself as I first attempted to learn Cocoa Programming and later AppleScript. I have found that a good way to consolidate what I have learned is to write something about it that others can follow. It is for me an interesting record of my progress through various programming topics. The tutorials have been published at irregular intervals during 2002 to 2005 in AUSOM News - the magazine of the Apple Users Society of Melbourne. www.ausom.net.au
The Tutorials should be of use to learners and beginners because I wrote them as a learner myself. References to Project Builder should now be updated for XCode. I assume all will work in XCode as described but the pictures may look a bit different. If you have comments about the articles I would like to hear from you. georgewr@bigpond.net.au

1. Writing Simple Programs in C and Java. How to write a simple C program source, compile it in ‘Terminal’ and run the compiled program. How to write a simple Java program source, compile it in ‘Terminal’ and run the compiled program. See October 2002 Ausom News.

2. Writing the same C program in Cocoa. How to create an Aqua user interface using Interface Builder, generate the Cocoa Objective-C source in Project Builder and then build and run the program. Both Interface Builder and Project Builder can be installed from the ‘Developer Disk’ that comes with your OS X. A cut-down version of this tutorial is available. See March 2003 Ausom News.

3. Building the Cocoa Application ‘StopWatch’. Use Interface Builder and Project Builder to create a simple application that can be used as a stop watch to time events.See June 2003 Ausom News.