melinthropy » cocoa http://melinthropy.org because sometimes you just need a little melinthropy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Loco for Cocoa http://melinthropy.org/2007/09/24/loco-for-cocoa/ http://melinthropy.org/2007/09/24/loco-for-cocoa/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:05:40 +0000 Melinda Weathers http://melinda.theweatherses.org/2007/09/24/loco-for-cocoa/ As I always mention, I’m very happy with my MacBook. Also, I know of at least 2 people in my office other than me (and I only hear from about 30 people or so) that have recently puchased Macs. So I predict that the market share for Mac is going to start going up and up and everyone realizes how cool it is and how they really don’t need to run Microsoft Word (and that they actually could if they really wanted to. Infact, Excel for Mac seems even better for Excel for Windows according to my husband.)

So now is the time to become a Mac Programmer! Everything seems to be prettier on the Mac, actually. Even websites that look kind of crummy by themselves look nicer on the Mac since each window has a drop shadow, and it makes the website look a little 3d. Apparently, the reason everything looks nice and consistent is the Cocoa toolkit. I did a tutorial with xcode when I installed xcode in order to get gcc. It was fun, and I created a Hello World window in Cocoa, but I didn’t really understand what was going on, especially since I had never even seen Objective C before.

Anyways, I recently came across this article from someone who made the switch, and it seems like a pretty interesting thing to try out! Maybe in all my spare time :)

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