New to Cocoa? - Don’t be afraid!

We’re here to help, after all. While this site doesn’t offer all the things you’ll ever need, it does offer some useful articles to get you started:

A Recommended Sequence For Learning Cocoa

• What is Cocoa? - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/WhatIsCocoa/WhatIsCocoa.html
• CocoaPrerequisites
• CocoaStepOne - Step back and look at the big picture
• CocoaStepTwo - How to find Apple’s Cocoa documentation and samples
• CocoaStepThree -

**Recommended articles: **

• GettingStarted - if you are really beginning at the beginning
• AnObject - If you’re new to ObjectOrientedDesign
• CocoaTutorials - Links to extensive tutorials around the Web
• MemoryManagement - You need to know this!
• AccessorMethods - Everyone needs them, but if you do it wrong, you’ll have MemoryLeaks
• DebuggingTechniques - I guess that speaks for itself… :-)
• SupplementaryFiles - Where to put additional stuff your app needs.
• CocoaDiscussions - We welcome your questions.
• CocoaBooks - Published books about Cocoa Programming and links on where to find them
• CocoaResources - If you didn’t find it anywhere else here, go and explore these links
• HowToProgramInOSX - A step-by-step set of answers to questions we all had starting out

**Moving forward: **

• NewbieProjectIdeas - A list of mini-project ideas offering a variety of difficulty.