Best Way To Get Started With Mac Development

Question

I just recently got my first mac. I do lots of programming on windows but now I want to get into Mac development. What are some languages i should know or tools i should use to

Answer 1

You could try combining f-script and traditional Cocoa (xcode in other words). f-script is great when you want to experiment with the Cocoa API, which is surely different from what you are used to. The more dynamic you stay, the faster you learn. That is my experience.

Answer 2

Cocoa is definitely the way to go. If you don't want to pay for a book these websites will help you out: http://cocoadevcentral.com/ http://cocoadev.com/ http://oreilly.com/pub/ct/37

Answer 3

Are you coming from a Windows environment? If you do I would recommend Mono which is a .Net free implementation or Java, both platforms work well in windows/osx/linux

If you just want to target OSX then Cocoa/Objective-C/XCode is the way to go but im not quite sure how many documentation or examples you will find since there seems to be only one big provider for development tools for OSX and that is Apple itself compared to the myriad of development tools you might find developing for Windows.

Of course there are many other alternatives, remember OSX is a Unix operative system, you could easily develop with Python/Perl/Ruby and many other scripting languages and development technologies just be sure to know what platforms are you going to target.