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Here at CrabApple Forest we’re always a sucker for free Mac-related things, and we just came across a free e-book that will help you learn to write software for the Mac, should that be your desire.

Quoting from the blog of one of the authors:

Become an Xcoder is a free little eBook we wrote to help beginners with no or little programming experience to start their journey into the world of Mac OS X development with Objective-C and Cocoa. (See Learn Cocoa for a recent discussion on this topic).

 I’m glad to announce that the book has been updated for Leopard and Xcode 3, thanks to the work of Alex Clarke (one of the original authors and our publisher at CocoaLab). You can download the PDF of this new edition.

For additional details including more information on where to find related learning materials, see this blog post.

We have the feeling that some people will be able to pick this up fairly easily, while others possibly never will. For those that "just don’t get" Objective-C and Cocoa, there’s always AppleScript and/or Automator workflows, about which we’ll most likely have something to say in upcoming articles. No matter which language you use, we hope you can write some really great software for the Mac!

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