No, it’s not terribly impressive, and no it’s not a huge amount of work either, but that’s my first Cocoa GUI program, hacked just a bit from the example in the textbook. (Cocoa programming for Mac OS X, third edition.) Kudos to Kevin for the tip; Aaron Hillegass is an unusually gifted author and his experience teaching the material shines through on every page. Highly recommended.

I’m having a lot of fun with this. Objective-C is pretty simple for anyone with C, and 10.5 adds garbage collection. I was reading 2nd edition and hating the retain/release manual memory management, so auto-GC is a huge incentive for me. InterfaceBuilder is still complicated, but the book explains well so off we go!