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were ready to get started writing some objective c and while it is just text we
could arrange objective c in text edit or from a terminal command line really
text editor
but we're not going to because i don't want to put myself through that much an
inconvenience we're going to use the tax code and downloaded from apple xcode is
and i d yvonne integrated development environment flank visual studio or
eclipse we're netbeans and being a ninety just means it does more than one
thing it's not just the text editor yes
you do you write your code an extra
you also organize your projects in xcode you compile your applications and xcode
and use it to test and debug your aps
now in some other languages you might shop around and try a bunch of different
nineties before figuring out which one suit you best
but with objective c xcode is the you want to use it is veetil that apple
provides
and out or use
for coding objective c apts the run on apple hardware
in this course will be using xcode version four formally released in march
twenty eleven an insane major upgrades to excluding from xcode three
banks could use to be free but with the release of extra for
that's changed in currently there's two ways of getting it
one is that you would open up your storehouse occasion on your desktop or
laptop and you can find xcode being listed here and you can buy it for in
the u_s_ of five dollars
the other way to get xcode is that you join apples iowa's developer program or
mac developer program
in the u_s_ that's currently ninety nine dollars a year and while that's
obviously more expensive than five bucks
the biggest reason to join either of those programs is that when you make an
apt and want to put it on parables ap store either for a high west devices or
for the magic
you will need to be a member of one of those programs
regardless she should get pretty comfortable with the address developer
dot apple dot com
this is the apple developer center and you get a lot of technical resources you
know when you get here
you'll see it split into three main sections of the ir west at center
targeted at developers working on high phone and i passed
the mac a dead center
for developers working on mac desktop amps
and there's also a section four safari
for surprise extensions were not going to use that one with objective c
but even if you don't wish to immediately join one of these programs
you should register as a generic apple developer if you want already
and in either the i_r_s_ test center or the mac dead center you'll find elite
to register for free if you haven't joined what you'll see here is
that will only give you access to xcode three and this is why you would also
need to buy xcode for from the ap store if you choose this method
having said that i am a paid up member of the i_r_s_ dev program so i'm going
to login
on one side logged on i'm going to find that the xcode for and iris as detailed
four point three right now the version that's available is the one posted on
march the ninth twenty eleven
you might have a slightly more up-to-date version
uh... even if you're only interested in developing mac invest all that she will
find the tax code does included the i_r_s_ as to cape either way
i'm going to download it and this is a large download its covert four gigabytes
and there's no way to pull it apart so even if you don't want to use like the
iowa stuff you have no choice you download the whole thing
it's so big because it isn't just xcode it's a whole sweet of applications
documentation tools and code libraries
so obviously this is going to take a while to download
and once it has run-through and installed i highly recommend that you
accept the default locations for the install
after you've done the install something different is that you'll find that xcode
by default it does not install under your regular applications folder but
instead installs
under your hard drive under developer slash applications
if i take a look down see that there's a way more than just xcode and we'll see
some of these other programs in pieces later on but for now
xcode is of the one that we want
a word of warning don't drag xcode somewhere else like your desktop while
some programs are cool with that exclude really isn't you're likely to have
problems
if you try and run it from somewhere else to leave it in developer slash
applications
however you can of course
drag it two-year dark which were just make and alias to read
so will have a short cuts easy to start later and this is what i'm going to do
here