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: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:55:01 -0400
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 ?
Maybe we can establish a standard distribution of learning time
required. Just having a basis to set expectations might help future
newbies.
I think it depends a lot on the nature of the newbie. I came to Cocoa
already quite comfortable with Smalltalk (and a bit of dabbling in
Objective-C some time in the early '90s) and familiar with several
frameworks and class libraries. Getting comfortable with Cocoa really
didn't take very long.
In trying to help other people along over the last several years, I
think I'd say that the single biggest stumbling block I see is not
with the framework but an aversion to the "weirdness" of Objective-C
syntax. That seems to be a huge problem for a surprising-to-me number
of people.
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