Re: Super Newbie
Re: Super Newbie
- Subject: Re: Super Newbie
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:32:24 +1100
My advice would be to try RealBasic first, but be open to exploring
Cocoa & Objective-C in cases where RealBasic isn't what you need.
I'd say, try RealBasic only if you absolutely need it's cross platform
capabilities. Otherwise Cocoa/Objective-C is just as easy to learn and
*much* more powerful.
Well, I guess there's different opinions. I dare say most people will
agree with you, myself included to a point. But while ObjC/Cocoa is
still miles ahead of any other major language & environment, it bothers
me that I cannot program in it without a web browser fixed firmly on
the documentation. Whereas even though I haven't used RealBasic for
nearly two years, I've just whipped up a token app (for nostalgia's
sake) without referring to the documentation once. For a beginner,
RealBasic offers the possibility of actually knowing everything there
is, whereas with Cocoa (and consequently all the related C/C++
libraries) that simply isn't possible. Even just becoming a "UI"
expert (for example) for Cocoa would take months, if not years.
For a beginner, understanding important OO concepts and standard
algorithms is much more important than most other things, so having an
environment that is very good for these *and* simple is excellent, thus
my recommendation for RealBasic.
On the other hand, having used RealBasic myself for many years, I
always wonder if perhaps I wasted a lot of good time, and should have
just jumped into Cocoa & C/C++/ObjC directly. But, perhaps, you cannot
break the rule that you must walk before you crawl, no matter how
little you now use crawling as your main method of transportation. :)
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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