PSIG 39: Thursday November 2nd, 2000

Chris Hanson gave a presentation on Cocoa. Not satisfied just talking about the application framework for Mac OS X, Chris also coved Object Orientated Programming (OOP) in general, as well as Objective C.

Like most Mac programmers, I wasn't into Objective C. How I see why the language is has a following -- it's much cleaner and easier to understand and C++. Although Chris will have to pry C++ templates from my cold, dead hands.

Finally Chris created a new program on the spot using the new Project Builder and Interface Builder. The most impressive thing to me was how you could associate a window's text input field directly with an object's "outlet" (that's Interface Builder-speak for member variable) and likewise bind an "action" (class method) to a button. In addition, Cocoa, Project Builder and Interface Builder all support Java as well as Objective C.

Thursday, November 02, 2000
12:00 AM