Learning to Write Modern Mac Apps Is Aggravating
If you’ve tried learning Cocoa programming to develop Mac apps, you probably have encountered frustration. You heard great things about Swift so you look at Apple’s documentation for a guide on writing a Mac app in Swift. Then you learn Apple hasn’t updated their Mac documentation in 10 years. Their guides are deprecated and the examples are in Objective-C. You can find class references in Swift, but when you’re starting out, you need more help than class references.
You search online for tutorials and articles on Mac programming and discover things aren’t much different than Apple’s documentation. The tutorials are old and the code is written in Objective-C. You can find lots of tutorials on iOS programming that use Swift but they don’t apply to the Mac. If you want to write Mac apps in Swift, you’re left to fend for yourself or ask questions on Stack Overflow and hope someone answers.
Help is on the Way
To help introduce people to Mac development, I’m writing Swift Dev Journal’s Intro to Cocoa. In the book you’ll make a complete Mac app using Swift and storyboards. Some of the Mac programming concepts you’ll learn include:
- View controllers
- View-based table views
- Text views
- Menus
- Notifications
- Saving data
The book focuses on Mac programming. There aren’t going to be chapters on the Swift language that cover material that you can find online in dozens of places.
After finishing Swift Dev Journal’s Intro to Cocoa, you’ll be ready to write your own Mac apps and tackle Apple’s class references.
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