Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
- Subject: Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:11:37 +0000
On 4 Mar 2009, at 05:40, Biagio wrote:
Hello. My first post. I'm learning to program using Xcode 3.1.2 in
OS X Leopard. My current plan of attack is working through these
books:
Learn C on the Mac
C All in One Desktop Reference for Dummies
Learn Objective-C On the Mac
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 3rd edition by Aaron Hillegass
I decided to make my "long term" learning goal the coding of a
simplified GTD app (ala iGTD/Things/EasyTask) that is designed around
my quirks and a few features I wish my app had. I realize this won't
be easy. From my initial research, it seems I'll need to really focus
on Core Data, and possibly the use of OpenBase or some other type of
SQL technology. I admit, I'm a bit overwhelmed, and would just like
some guidance as to where to focus my attention after I get through
the above books. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Trust me, you really don't want to start learning Core Data at this
stage. As the docs clearly state, it is an advanced technology.
Instead, I would suggest that you implement your application using a
technology like NSCoding for persisting your GTD data. This should be
plenty fast to start with, much simpler to implement, and then
valuable experience for optimising performance later.
Mike.
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