Houston, we have Leopard

I've put off diving too deep into Cocoa until Leopard was out. I installed the new OS the day it came out; today, I even got the internet working (I had to buy a router, as Leopard seemed to be unable to get an IP address from my ISP on its own, needless to say, that's made me pretty disappointed and frustrated).

I read Apple's PDF on Objective-C years ago. I know some C, though I'm not a C programmer by any stretch of the imagination. I've followed some tutorials, even read a couple of Cocoa books, so I'm vaguely familiar with the simplest concepts, but I still find the learning curve that's ahead of me a bit intimidating.

I followed through the CurrencyConverter tutorial, though for some strange reason, the version included with the Leopard dev tools was not updated for the new OS. I couldn't help noticing how different things are now, even at such an elementary level.

For example, I'm no longer supposed to create classes in Inteface Builder, and then import them into Xcode. Looks like classes are now solely being generated by manually writing code in Xcode. I can't say I like that; though real programmers probably rejoice. I guess I need to grow fond of typing everything by hand, even boilerplate code, if I want to be a real programmer.

OK, now that I have internet, I can follow the updated tutorial. I'm going in.