Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
- Subject: Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
- From: mmalc crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:03:55 -0700
On May 15, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Bruno Sanz Marino wrote:
The really first step with a language is allways to write code and
forget the "GUI" and the "buttons and windows" .....Then when you
know what are you doing and you can do what you want to do (like a
painter), you can think in the "GUIS" and all these stuff
I think this is a crucial point.
My guidance for Cocoa's alleged "steep learning curve" is, "Why are
you making it steep?"
It reminds me of the clichéd joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Well, don't do that."
There are plenty of ways to ease yourself it Cocoa development,
notably just as Bruno suggests here by ignoring the GUI and learning
about the Objective-C language an the basics of the Foundation
Frameworks.
Yet week in, week out, we see people who ignore the advice given in
the documentation and try to learn Objective-C, Foundation, Interface
Builder, *and* Cocoa bindings and Core Data all in one go. It's no
wonder it's daunting.
mmalc
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