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Re: Learning Cocoa, but no programing experience, possible?
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Re: Learning Cocoa, but no programing experience, possible?


  • Subject: Re: Learning Cocoa, but no programing experience, possible?
  • From: Camillo Lugaresi <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:11:40 +0100

On 01/feb/06, at 14:48, Christian Cruz wrote:

- It is possible to learn Cocoa without going through the painful way
of learning C first?

C is not a particularly difficult programming language. Most of the effort involved in learning it would in fact consist of learning fundamental programming concepts which can be applied to other languages as well. You are eventually going to need these concepts and techniques if you are going to write any sort of program, so there is no point in trying to avoid it.


On the other hand, there are other languages with which it might be easier to learn programming, after which you should have little trouble picking up C and Objective-C (which is just a small extension of C). Although I'm not too fond of it, Java is very popular as an introductory language right now, and you can use Cocoa with it. I've also heard people recommend Python for beginners, and it too has Cocoa bindings.

To obtain the best results with Cocoa you will have to use Objective- C eventually, but that doesn't mean you have to start with it. You don't even have to start with Cocoa, in fact.

Camillo
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