Apple release free

Cocoa beta

Apple have released a free beta (try out) version of Cocoa. You can get your copy now at:

http://cocoa.apple.com/cocoa/

Cocoa is a new easy to use authoring tool from Apple that allows anyone to create interactive media and easily integrate it with the World Wide Web.

It lets children take their ideas about what they want the computer to do and turn them into magical interactive worlds where their ideas can be explored and developed.

And once they have created their world, they can put it on the Internet for children of all ages to play with.

To find out more about the thinking behind Cocoa, we suggest reading the Cocoa Vision Statement .

What can you do with Cocoa?

You can:

• Build interactive worlds with characters you draw and animate
• Build your own video games and play them right inside a Web page
• Create a simulation of a natural process, like a flower garden or a pond
• Draw a living picture book that never reads the same way twice
• Add custom interactivity and multimedia to any Web page

...without even learning HTML

And you get to learn the basics of object-oriented programming while you're having all this fun...without needing to know any weird language commands!

Cocoa is based on what we call Programming by Demonstration: you just show what you want to have happen in a given situation, and Cocoa does the programming for you ...automagically!