Cocoa Programming
Monday, August 25th, 2008I’m currently reading Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. I’m becoming astonished by the underlying technology in Cocoa. There are some drawbacks, it’s true: for instance, Objective-C is much less intuitive than Java or C#, the whole .h files seem pretty much deprecated nowadays, and there’s definitely a learning curve there. But having a book like this can help a lot in the process.
I’ve just finished chapter 11 from 35 in total. I must say that by now, CoreData amazed me by allowing to create an application to display, manage and persist (with an Undo/Redo mechanism and all) a simple Information System to catalog Books (along-side with an Image, rating, etc…) without a single line of code. What amazes me most, is that there’s barely code-generation going under the hood: it’s the whole pervasive MVC architecture in Cocoa that allows you to bind hotspots everywhere.
I strongly advise every programmer who can to read this book and do the exercises up to the eleventh chapter. If after this point you aren’t convinced, you can flame me at will 
My whole dilemma now is: I’m a developer for Windows (it sucks, but that’s what the company I work for do). I can see the potential in this framework, business-wise, but I can’t seem to find a way to bring this into the Windows world. Any ideas out there?
