In the first of a planned series of podcasts, Alex Hall introduces us to programming with Xcode by creating a new project, logging a line of code, checking that log, and carrying out some basic debugging.

If you are unfamiliar with Xcode, it is an integrated development environment containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for OS X and iOS.

The text guides mentioned by Alex in this podcast can be found on the AppleVis website at http://www.applevis.com/guides/programming-ios and http://www.applevis.com/guides/programming-os-x