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Where would a person get started in writing programs for OSX?

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I took some programming classes back in college but never really did anything with it. I always wanted to pick it back up and build on it but my PC went kaput back in the spring and I've more or less become Mac only... so I figure I might as well start fresh with something I can actually use.

I don't even know what language OSX Programs are coded in.

I know a bit of C++ and even less of C, I know the basics of some web languages like PHP... is this something I could reasonably apply to whatever language I'd have to learn?

Does anyone have any good books or websites they can point me to?

I just always see threads like this and think that a great solution is just a couple weekends of work away.
 
Go to the apple dev center and get XCode. It's their development suite. You'll be programming (most likely) in objective-c.
 
ObjectiveC is what most of Cocoa is based in. Cocoa makes modern OS X Apps. So, ultimately you need to learn OBjectiveC for the syntax and Cocoa for the extras.
 
I just found a great primer book on objective-C. It's not released yet, but you can get a PDF rough draft and get the book mailed to you when it is released next month.

http://my.safaribooksonline.co...ev1sec2?portal=oreilly


Then once you have objective-C down, grab any of the good cocoa tutorials or books and you are ready.

The other option is to use ruby which also has cocoa bindings.
 
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