Cocoa Tutorial for Absolute Newbies

After talking to a number of people recently and reading some blogs, I decided it's time to show some love to the newbies. The newest tutorial at Cocoa Dev Central is simply called Learn Cocoa. Now you're not going to learn Cocoa in a single tutorial, but it's a start.



My goal with this was to do the simplest thing possible while still ending up with something useful. It's a relatively short read by design — probably about twenty minutes. Essentially, you're shown how to launch Xcode, create a project, launch Interface Builder, add a few items and compile the result. There's no code, but we do bask in the glow of NSTextView's rich text handling.

Even if you have no programming experience at all but know how to use a Mac and click on things, I guarantee you'll end up with your first Mac application by the end of the tutorial. In fact, even if you're a relatively experienced developer coming from another platform, you may still find it useful because it introduces the basics of the tools very quickly.

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Enjoy, and spread the word.

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