Helpful development resources

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Contents 1 Online Resources 1.1 General 1.2 Forums 1.3 IRC 1.4 Source Code Control 1.5 Cocoa with Objective-C 1.6 Java 1.7 AppleScript 1.8 Game development 2 Books

Online Resources

General

• http://developer.apple.com - Apple's developer site
• http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/dir?q=comp.sys.mac.programmer.* - Programming help on Google Groups
• http://www.wotsit.org/ - Contains documentation of various file formats (doc, jpg etc)
• http://www.sourceforge.net - Website for hosting open source projects
• http://macdevcenter.com/ - Useful development resource
• http://cprog.oreilly.com/ - C variant related books from O'Reilly

Forums

• Mac Programming - Mac Programming forum on MacRumors
• http://forums.macosxhints.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27 - Mac OS X Hints developer forum
• http://www.idevapps.com/ - Development forums

IRC

• irc://irc.freenode.net/macdev - #macdev on Freenode, one of the biggest IRC channels for Mac development

Source Code Control

• http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/ prepackaged svn binaries

Cocoa with Objective-C

• http://cocoadevcentral.com/ - Very useful tutorials
• http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl - Lots of Cocoa information and help
• http://www.stepwise.com/ - Useful Cocoa resource
• http://www.cocoacast.com/ - Podcast covering Cocoa development using Aaron Hillegass' book "Cocoa Programming for MAC OS X"
• http://www.cocoalab.com/BecomeAnXcoder.pdf - Great tutorial for beginners that don't know C

Java

• http://java.sun.com - Official Java site
• http://www.mindview.net/ - Free and quite excellent Java book
• http://developer.apple.com/java/ - Apple centric Java jump point
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/ - Links on the right hand side to a few more Java resources
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/ - Java API notes
• http://java.oreilly.com/ - Java related books from O'Reilly

AppleScript

• http://macscripter.net/ - AppleScript development website

Game development

• http://www.idevgames.com/ - Mac game development community

Books

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Hillegass, ISBN 0321213149

Programming in Objective - C
Kochan, ISBN 0672325861

Code Complete
McConnell, ISBN 0735619670