Hats off to The Big Nerd Ranch

I have to take a moment from learning Cocoa and programing my Mac and iPhone to acknowledge the folks at Big Nerd Ranch.  The latest edition of iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is really taking me to new levels.  I particularly like that it is available for immediate use in a Kindle version.  With the Kindle App on my iPad it is very convenient!  Now if only they'd release an updated version of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X I'd be in "Nerdvana" to use one of their terms!

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I do this as a hobby so I don't get to devote the time I'd like to otherwise.  But I am trying to figure out a way to justify one of their classes like Beginning Cocoa or Beginning iOS classes (or both!).  Perhaps soon I will.   

Until then, these books are great!  Thanks guys!

Cocoa and Objective-C

I've been teaching myself Objective-C and Cocoa lately. In doing this I have turned to the online communities for guidance and support. This is a strategy that has worked well with my other interests but really falls short with Objective-C and Cocoa.

I have noticed in my searches the Cocoa Touch for iOS seems to generate more community involvement. Perhaps I should focus on iPhone and iPad development instead. :)

Sites that I have found include but not limited too:

Cocoa with Love. -nice blog with good information; has comments enabled for feedback

Learn Cocoa - @cocoadevcentral.com has good basic information and examples; several good links to other sites but I don't recall any form of interaction such as comments or forums.

CocoaDev Forums - general forums, with wiki as main page supported by Panic (these guys produce some really useful software such as Transmit and Coda.

The Cocoa Programming Forum - very dated effort. Virtually no replies in first few pages of current posts.

Cocoa Community Forums - Nice forum where Admin, Darrell seems to make a valiant solo effort

Become an Xcoder - good pdf oriented to the beginner

Maybe I am looking in the wrong places but I haven't found any forums yet that seem to have a lot of traffic that produces many replies or help on posts. One exception seems to be stackoverflow.com that draws a wide range of programmers. I haven't posted there yet because it appears a little more advanced than my skill set, but I can foresee it being useful in the future.

These are the places I've bookmarked thus far. I'll surely add to the list as time goes on.

Anyone with knowledge of good sites for learning Mac OS programming feel free to chime in!

Paul

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Is this really needed?

I don't blog much. Perhaps there is no need for this.

Took the kids to the Greenville, SC Zoo yesterday. We had a really great time!

Black Friday. Hmmm. Just loaded the kids all up to go drop off payroll at the clinic. Traffic was very light. Maybe everyone is at Wal-Mart?