Article:		Further Your CS Development with Mac OS X
Subject:		Help a Comp Eng. Student out
Date:		2004-09-14 03:05:35
From:		ll350
Can anyone point me to some web resources for using IDE's on Mac OS X? Particularly Using Xcode for newbies? I am a Computer Engineering Student at UNC-CH, taking my Foundations of Programing class. I tried using Xcode, but the Documentation that is available at Apple Developer Connection doesn't seem to have me in it's target audience. I'm currently using JBuilder Foundation, which is pretty good, except that they don't have any documentation or samples for the Mac version. I was really hoping to use Xcode. Perhaps if I purchase the Student membership to ADC, I could get a some better doucmentation for Xcode? If someone could provide some insight in to that, I would really apprecitate it. I would be willing to purchase one if I knew it would help, but it would be a pretty big hit to my budget if it didn't.

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• Help a Comp Eng. Student out
  2004-12-01 12:02:16  metacell [Reply | View]
  
  
  I seriously recommend this series (note: MacDevCenter!):
  
  http://macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/37
  
  But if you just want to write standard C/C++, you might just try running gcc from the mac terminal app.
  
  You can still generate vanilla C/C++ programs from XCode, simply select 'Standard Tool' from the new projct window. Even if you don't want to learn the Mac APIs (Carbon or Cocoa), the series I linked is still a good introduction to the XCode environment.