Uniforum: Intro to ObjC and Cocoa

Cocoa is Mac OS X's built-in object-oriented application framework. Written in Objective-C, it is perhaps the most mature and advanced desktop application framework in existence. You can think of it as OpenStep: The Next Generation.

You may have seen NeXT demos in the past. They tend to feature lots of magic, statements like "this million-line app was rewritten into 170 lines of code by leveraging our framework". Cocoa isn't magic and Objective-C isn't a super-language. Far from it. Together, we'll step through an introduction of Objective-C, the language, highlighting its pros and cons.

For the second part, we'll explore the Cocoa itself, both from the framework level and the toolkit level (Xcode and Interface Builder).

I'll probably post my slides here after the talk.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004
01:01 PM