Re: Beginner with Objective-C was Re: scanf...?
Re: Beginner with Objective-C was Re: scanf...?
- Subject: Re: Beginner with Objective-C was Re: scanf...?
- From: Georg Tuparev <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:34:17 +0200
On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Erik Buck wrote:
However, Cocoa programmers do eventually need to learn C because
they will inevitably encounter C code like the example I copied
from Apple’s documentation. If you limit yourself to the subset of
Cocoa that is accessible without a deeper understanding (groking)
of C, you will never be able to develop “serious” applications.
The word "serious" here is the key! In other environments they call
serious what for us is just 30 minutes nib-ware. Therefore using
Cocoa the need to start understanding C might hit you sooner then
expected.
There is also another danger of not learning early - once you start
working on real projects (deadlines, budget, etc.) there is a good
chance you never will find time to come back to the basics. Cocoa
frameworks are huge, and Apple is doing their best to make the
reading of the release notes a life-long task. But to really
understand how the programs function, to "feel" what the computer
does, one needs all these bit-fields, unions, and pointers to
functions. And only developers that really feel the computer could
take on any challenge....
Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
Klipper 13
1186 VR Amstelveen
The Netherlands
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