Re: Serious Questions
Re: Serious Questions
- Subject: Re: Serious Questions
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:02:18 -0700
At 5:46 PM -0400 5/26/01, Brian Howard wrote:
On Saturday, May 26, 2001, at 05:15 PM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
Sounds like you haven't looked at the tutorials that are available. The
currency converter is a good place to start.
Thanks to everyone who responded. As a matter of fact I did do the
Currency Converter Tutorial, and it worked fine once I got past the
indexing before building bug. However, perhaps someone here can
expand on one thing: I set a couple of breakpoints and was expecting
some sort of run/stop situation when nothing happened. That is I
expected the program to stop and then continue when I told it to, so
that I could step through the program, but there was no pause. What
am I missing?
I'm used to CodeWarrior, so I keep getting bitten by this. Old habits die hard.
Running a program doesn't invoke the debugger *unless* you
specifically request it -- Command-Y or clicking on the bug spray can
will do the trick. Command-R will just run the program without
stopping at breakpoints.
Also, please understand that I have already read everything I could
find, but it is hard to absorb everything at once. No doubt the fog
will lift at some point. That said, I still think the level of
documentation from Apple is abysmal. They are betting the whole
store on OS X and Cocoa is KEY. They need all the developers they
can rustle up, even lames like me.
You'll do fine, just keep working on the projects. 99% of success at
programming is being more stubborn than your bugs. :)
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