Re: Lost contents!
Re: Lost contents!
- Subject: Re: Lost contents!
- From: Fatih Erarslan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:16:14 -0500
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 06:25 PM, Brian Howard wrote:
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Just consider this: Apple is the only one who has put out something
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touted as being for beginners, namely "Learning Cocoa," which is crap.
'Learning Cocoa' is not 'crap', it is just a tutorial book and assumes
that you understand Objective-C which includes Object Orientation and C
language. I understand your frustration, but, you have to go through
some basic understanding the above-mentioned concepts before you hit the
ball.
There is no such thing that you start building the roof of a house which
is basically what you are trying to do. First build the basement then
the walls and then the roof. No one can be an oracle in just few days,
you gotta sacrifice things first. Then you are given that talent, but
you build it: Be patient.
I am also a new programmer, I am no wizard but I can recommend you
something: Do a mind-mapping over your studies. Get good books on OO and
a C book will help. and make yourself familiar with the class docs.
These are the things that you may hear from the Apple folks and most
experienced Cocoa developers.
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Meanwhile Bill Cheeseman and Aaron Hillegass both state up front that
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YOU MUST HAVE A SOLID GROUNDING IN C, & EXPERIENCE IN SOME OOP before
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trying this at home!
I can recommend you some books:
"The Object Primer" by Scott W. Ambler, Cambridge University Press, 2nd
Edition ISBN 0-521-78519-7. It is like 50 bucks go get it. I can also
recommend Dr. Timothy Budd's book: "An Introduction to Object Oriented
Programming" 2nd Edition, ISBN 0-201-82419-1 (this is a great book
talks about Objective-C along with other OO langs such as Java,
Smalltalk, etc.).
I also can say go ahead and take Cocoa classes on
http://www.mediaschool.com/adc If you are a member of ADC, student and
premier, you get 50% discount. It's been designed by collaborating with
Apple engineers.
Frederick P. Brooks who wrote "The Mythical Man-Month" says: "Bearing a
child takes nine months no matter how many women are assigned to this
task."
Best,
Fatih Erarslan
NSLog(@"Grinding Cocoa beans!");