For all of you Xcoders and Cocoa dev newbies (incl. yours truly), check out the free PDF starter "Become an Xcoder" by Alex Clark of CocoaLab in Australia.
I've meant to blog about this since Alex announced the availability in Chinese and Arabic. [links removed see link above] Take that O'Reilly! Maybe Alex knows something about the growth of the international Mac market that others have missed.
Grab the PDF and get cracking! Also, CocoaLab hosts an online Wiki version of the text in English.
Kudos to CocoaLab for making tools like this available to new developers. It would be cool to see developers offer to run people through this course at CocoaDevHouse. There are a few in planning around Australia last I heard.
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I got the PDF file from the CocoaRadio podcast feed, and it looks pretty good… except I can’t read Chinese.
Posted by: Frungi | 20 October 2006 at 03:48 PM
Thanks for the plug Blake! I should point out that the text was written by Bert Altenberg, Philippe Mougin and myself. Bert contributed most of the original text, and he's in the Netherlands. Philippe is best known for his F-Script project. He's in France. So it's an international effort, really. We just hope it's useful to the next generation of potential Cocoa programmers, and results in more innovative Mac software in years to come.
Posted by: Alex Clarke | 20 October 2006 at 07:09 PM
>> "It would be cool to see developers offer to run people through this course at CocoaDevHouse. There are a few in planning around Australia last I heard."
Alex: are you planning any courses? I'm in Sydney, and always looking to hook up with a fellow Cocoa Dev or two..
Cheers,
D.
Posted by: Duncan Campbell | 21 October 2006 at 05:51 PM
Seems as tho the domain "cocoalab.com" has lapsed. Anyone have a recent pointer to this PDF and related information? TIA ..
Posted by: Giant Mike | 27 November 2006 at 08:07 PM
Hi Giant Mike,
Become An Xcoder is back at CocoaLab. Apologies for any inconvenience caused during the time our domain was down.
Cheers,
A
Posted by: Alex Clarke | 26 January 2007 at 04:20 AM