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: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:53:23 -0400
On May 25, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Erik Buck wrote:
So this is a survey:
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 ?
Newbie to competent was either 4 months, or 20 years and 4 months,
depending on how you look at it, spending 2-3 hours a day on weekdays,
and probably 4-6 hours a day on most weekends. The two different
numbers are because I brought a lot of programming experience to the
table when I started learning Cocoa, I knew many languages, had worked
with OO application frameworks like PowerPlant and had used C++ and
the STL, and Java, plus some proprietary programming languages like
PeopleCode. As a result of that previous experience, a lot of
stumbling blocks some people have learning Cocoa were already under my
belt.
From competent to truly competent (intermediate) was probably another
4 months at the same schedule. I won't give a number to "advanced"
because I wouldn't consider myself advanced, and don't believe I will
until/unless I'm able to start doing Cocoa full time, though I feel
like I do enough with Cocoa to hold steady at around the advanced
intermediate level. Unfortunately, at present, probably 75% of my
programming time is in other languages, but if I had to guess, I'd
guess that from my present ability level, it would take six months to
a year of working with it full time before I'd feel comfortable saying
I was "advanced".
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