Category Archives: Xcode

Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for OS X and iOS ( Wikipedia )

Objective-C Player and Game OOP Primer Tutorial

There is change in the wind. And they call the wind Mariah. Do you see how those butterflies in Brazil have been flapping faster? Let me explain. With Apple iOS 8 there could be big changes to programming arrangements, and … Continue reading →

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Xcode Cocoa-Applescript Dictation Program Primer Tutorial

Building on yesterday’s relevant Mac OS X Dictation Primer Tutorial as shown below, which addressed the Operating System view of the Dictation functionality, today we take some first steps down the road of writing an application to use this Dictation … Continue reading →

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C++ std::vector Primer Tutorial

Today we answer a Yahoo Answers question (thanks) to point out an advantage C++ std::vector “container” datatype has over a base array datatype. We use Xcode (on a Mac laptop) as our IDE for this work. Read more here about … Continue reading →

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Tcl/Tk Bats and Ball Tutorial

Good news today is a breakthrough on a put-off project, getting Tcl/Tk to work with Mac OS X Mavericks and Xcode 5.1 on a MacBook Pro laptop … answering, partially, the previous Tcl/Tk So Brilliant (but where do you start?) … Continue reading →

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C++ Formatting cout Primer Tutorial

C++ uses iostream.h methods to format command line output. Programmers with a background in C may think the iostream.h “cout” stream output methods are a little harder to use (compared to C’s printf and sprintf and fprintf (which, of course, … Continue reading →

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Xcode iOS Utility Application Primer Tutorial

The Xcode IDE, like many IDEs, holds that special fascination for the occasions when you, the user, (or youse, the users (chortle, chortle)) can go “File->New Project”. With a couple more button presses the user will feel that satisfaction of … Continue reading →

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Xcode Objective-C Mutable Dictionary Primer Tutorial

Have you heard of Objective-C? It is a great object-oriented programming language that builds that object orientation on top of a C programming base. Sounds good (even better than good), and Objective-C is the language of iOS Mobile Apps, so … Continue reading →

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C, C++ NetBeans, Xcode gcc Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial has come about as a consequence of Xcode and its Command Line Tools Primer Tutorial in the sense that the installation of Xcode Command Line Tools (in earlier Xcode versions … think maybe less than 4 … “out … Continue reading →

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