Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Encouraging elegent design from programmers
I've just created my first application for my Mac, using Apple's own bundled Xcode development suite. I have to say there's more of a learning curve to it than Visual Studio, but once I'd got my head around the way it works I got on OK. The idea is the same as Visual Studio - you draw an interface, and then link elements within that interface to code that does the work. This linking is far more involved in Xcode, but what really pleased me was the way the interface builder helps out with spacing of interface elements, to help you design a nicely laid out GUI. Now, if I could just get something that could advise me on how to write decent Java code...
I've just created my first application for my Mac, using Apple's own bundled Xcode development suite. I have to say there's more of a learning curve to it than Visual Studio, but once I'd got my head around the way it works I got on OK. The idea is the same as Visual Studio - you draw an interface, and then link elements within that interface to code that does the work. This linking is far more involved in Xcode, but what really pleased me was the way the interface builder helps out with spacing of interface elements, to help you design a nicely laid out GUI. Now, if I could just get something that could advise me on how to write decent Java code...
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