I'd like to start experimenting with Cocoa, Objective-C and Xcode, but the only Apple computer I own is an old PowerBook with OS X 10.4.7 installed and as far as I can tell I would have to buy and install OS X 10.5 (Leopard I think) just to be able to install Xcode 3.2 - the currently available version. The thing is I'm a Windows developer and I don't want to have to upgrade this barely functional Mac laptop just to be able to play around with Xcode. So, I'm wondering is there any way that I can download some older 2.x version of Xcode that will run on OS X 10.4.7?
Create a free account at Apple Developer Connection at http://connect.apple.com (if you haven't already) and in the Developer Tools subsection of Downloads (about halfway down) you will find:
Xcode 2.5 Developer Tools
Xcode 2.5 is an update release of Xcode developer tools, providing bug fixes over Xcode 2.4.1. Xcode 2.5 can be installed on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) ...