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Apple apps

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  • 08-06-2009 8:31pm
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    Shane_C
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    Hi guys, anybody ever experiment with apple apps? Do you need a mac to start programming and is the development environment expensive?


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    Hobbes
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    Shane_C wrote: »
    Do you need a mac to start programming

    Yes. People will tell you can hack it to run on a PC but it isn't worth the hassle and no guarantee it will work forever. (hacked version of Mac OSX).
    and is the development environment expensive?

    It's free (XCode).

    Language is Objective-C and is a very nice language. If your familar with C/C++ or Java you should find it easy.


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    ethernet
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    A lot of development seems to be done in the Xcode IDE. You get can the latest version here. This IDE is Mac-only though.

    If you're developing for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform, Objective C seems to be the way to go.

    Edit: beaten to it! :pac:


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    Anima
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    Installing OSX on a pc isn't that difficult these days and its just as stable as anything else. I recently did it there and haven't had any problems so far.


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    ethernet
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    Anima wrote: »
    Installing OSX on a pc isn't that difficult these days and its just as stable as anything else. I recently did it there and haven't had any problems so far.
    True but it should be stated that this is in violation of the EULA and, unless the situation has improved somewhat, some updates can potentially break the installation.


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    Red Alert
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    I love XCode although I admit that I found Objective C a bit hard to learn at first: I still do a lot of scientific programming in MATLAB (and increasingly Python) but there's lots of ways you can link Objective C to C, C++, Python and other languages. So you could in theory do a fair bit of code re-use.


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