Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming
Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming
- Subject: Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming
- From: Erik Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:54:20 -0800
On Feb 22, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Thomas Roberts wrote:
I recently purchased my first Mac and I am going to develop programs
using Objective-C/Cocoa. There is a "tutorial" at
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/22/cocoa_series.html
with the author's purpose to teach just enough C to get us good enough
to start doing "day-to-day" programming in Objective-C. If I need to
know C to program in Objective-C what is the difference between the
two and do they use the same compiler? How do I find out what
compiler and version is installed on my computer so I can look for
books to help me learn the correct syntax?
I'm relatively new to Objective-C/Cocoa too. (It's been about 5 years
since I did any C/C++; since then I've been doing Java.)
So far I haven't needed to remember anything about C other than the
basics like loops and variable declarations. Learning Objective C was
pretty easy just from reading through examples in the Cocoa books. I
did buy the Objective C Pocket Reference from O'Reilly (which I
actually keep in my jacket pocket so I can read it while waiting for
the train or something) so I can learn about some of the more advanced
Objective C stuff that I haven't run across in practice but that I
might want to use someday.
Most of my time has been spent learning the Cocoa libraries. There's a
lot to learn. I would suggest focusing on Cocoa books and learning
Cocoa, and you'll learn Objective C along the way.
(The second-hardest part has been getting used to the Mac development
tools, which are a step ahead of other tools I've used in some ways
(nice UI, fast, good access to documentation), and a step behind in
other ways (no refactoring, inspection or intentions).)
--
Erik Hanson
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