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: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:06:51 -0700
On 15 May '08, at 5:03 PM, mmalc crawford wrote:
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."
I agree. There are so many questions on this list from people who are
clearly Cocoa newbies, who are trying to do really difficult/advanced
things.
If you're learning Cocoa, just write something straightforward like a
simple app, like the CurrencyConverter or whatever. Learn the basics
of how to write action methods, wire up an interface in IB, and do
basic things with Foundation classes. Add features one at a time ...
documents, copy and paste, drag and drop, whatever. Just don't try to
start out all at once with CoreData and XML and AppleScript and
accessing other apps' windows!
—Jens
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