Re: How hard is it to learn Cocoa - Survey ?
Re: How hard is it to learn Cocoa - Survey ?
- Subject: Re: How hard is it to learn Cocoa - Survey ?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 03:11:09 -0700
On May 25, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Erik Buck wrote:
For those who consider themselves intermediate to advanced Cocoa
programmers, how long was the journey from newbie to competent and
from competent to advanced ? What percentage of your time did you
dedicate over how many months ?
Back in 1989 when I learned NeXTSTEP, there was an excellent NeXTSTEP
concepts manual, and using that and the rest of the NeXT docs for 2.0,
I was about as productive as I had been on the Mac after a month or
so. Three months after I'd started using NeXTSTEP, I got to take the
DevCamp course from Randy Nelson at NeXT's office in Pittsburgh, and
that moved me from newbie to competent in a week. I would say that I
was a NeXSTEP expert by the end of that year, which would be about
nine months from when I first got my hands on a NeXTStation.
As Greg mentioned, there's a whole lot more to Cocoa than we had in
NeXTSTEP. We got some things that save us an enormous amount of time,
but we also lost some great things like the SoundKit, the DriverKit,
and the MusicKit.
-jcr
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