Visualizing Cocoa
Visualizing Cocoa
- Subject: Visualizing Cocoa
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:15:43 -0700
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email@hidden Fri, 2001 June 08 19:17:17 -0400 wrote:
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I think one of my big problems with trying to get a grip on Cocoa
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is visualization--or rather the lack thereof! A simple procedural
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program is essentially linear... it is child's play to diagram the
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program on a sheet of paper... It is exceedingly difficult to
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lay out a Cocoa program on a sheet of paper. Bits and pieces,
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yes, but not an entire app with all the objects and their outlets,
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delegates, protocols, categories, et cetera. All interconnected
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in myriad ways!... It would also explain why I was able to nail
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Fortran and am still thrashing around with Cocoa. I "get" the basics:
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polymorphism, encapsulation, dynamic binding, inheritance, the MVC
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paradigm; but I can't visualize how all of these things hook up to
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solve a problem.
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I stand by my assessment that Apple's documentation leaves a lot
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to be desired, and I have seen enough other people articulate
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this better than I to know I'm right; however, given my
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visualization problem, it might NOT be quite as bad as I first
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thought. So, does any of this ring a bell with anyone; if you
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had, or have, this visualization problem how did you get past it?...
Maybe this is one key... and an opportunity for the creation of
another visual development tool (or tool-kit). I, too, tend to
rely on visualization in programming (which is why I want that
60 inch diagonal 3000 pixel per inch monitor for my lap-top).
John G. Otto Nisus Software, Engineering
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