Getting started with Xcode

Xcode is Apple’s Integrated Development Environment. Everything you need to write, build, and run new applications is in Xcode.

A note on terminology: anything that is executable on a computer we call a program. Some programs have graphical user interfaces; we call these applications.

Some programs have no graphical user interface and run for days in the background; we call these daemons. Daemons sound scary, but they are not. You probably have about 60 daemons running on your Mac right now. They are waiting around, hoping to be useful. For example, one of the daemons running on your system is called pboard. When you do a copy and paste, the pboard daemon holds onto the data that you are copying.

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