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Programming Challenges for Mac Developers

Posted by pudge on from the i-dev-you-dev-we-all-dev dept.

Carlos Camacho writes "iDevGames, a Macintosh Game Developer's Site has started issuing small programming challenges to Mac developers. The first challenge just wrapped up and the result is two nifty apps. The source code for both apps, and all apps entered into the programming challenges, will be released as open source. The next challenge has added an extra day, so developers have 72 hours. The focus is on creating an application to demonstrate 'A* pathfinding.'"

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  1. bleh?! by Linwood · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'll tell ya the hardships of mac programming, as a newbie (myself) trying to figure out that you have to hold ctrl or shift or cmd and drag a line from one MDI window to another on your acctual forms to make it 'connect' .. thats hard.. I've been reading this damn Cocoa book for a month and i still have no idea how anyone would ever learn to do anything 'radical' or new without explicit instructions of the odd interface of Xcode and its buddy Interface builder. but i'm just a newb so i'm prolly riding on -1 Troll or something, anyways, back to finding out how many combintations there are for menu items, such as cmd-backspace-shift-ctrl just to save a file.. woot! and somehow.. i still like the ol' mac.. it's like drugs, fun for the end-user, hard as hell for the chemist.