Re: Why I think I'm so lost
Re: Why I think I'm so lost
- Subject: Re: Why I think I'm so lost
- From: mathew <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:00:54 -0400
On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 17:51 US/Eastern,
<email@hidden> wrote:
Prior to that I worked in pascal and did everything through code, very
little interaction with things like IB or concepts like MVC.
I know Flash has a conecpt similar to MVC, but how similar or how
exactly
it is like cocoa I have not fully grasped.
MVC isn't a Cocoa thing. It's a design pattern for writing software in
any programming language, on any platform. MVC is used for web
applications written in Java, Windows applications written in C++, and
so on.
Is there actually any corrilation between actionscript(i know the
languages are different. but I am wondering about base structure) and
cocoa? or am i looking for similarity where there is none?
I don't know any ActionScript, but having written code in over a dozen
languages I'd suggest that in general, it's a bad idea to think of a
programming language in terms of other programming languages. Even if
the languages are quite similar, there are usually pitfalls that
result. For example, trying to use Objective-C as if it were C++ is a
bad idea, and the Perl manuals have a whole section of "things which
will go horribly wrong if you use Perl the way you'd use other
languages".
There *are* universal aspects to programming, but they're things like
algorithms, data structures, programming practices, design patterns,
and so on. Things which generally aren't universal are types, syntax,
and variable scoping.
mathew
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