Re: So what is a good approach to learning WebObjects?
Re: So what is a good approach to learning WebObjects?
- Subject: Re: So what is a good approach to learning WebObjects?
- From: Arturo Pérez <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:34:34 -0500
On Nov 15, 2003, at 11:10 PM, Alice Oaks wrote:
I've been at this for a few weeks now but I feel like I'm going around
in
circles, so I thought I should stop and ask for directions. :)
The best way to get useable directions is to know where you want to go.
What's
your objective with WO? Is it faster RDBMS->Web development? Is it
more O-O
oriented Web development? Is it you're stuck with Apple stuff and
you're
trying to make a go of it?
Usually the people that come to WebObjects have the attitude that
"I know how to do an RDBMS." "I know how to do web pages." And so you
end up
wanting to do the thing the way you're used to doing it rather than
following
the lead of WebObjects. It's sort of like trying to use a knife as a
screwdriver.
You can do it. It will work eventually. But it's incredibly
frustrating.
Better to use the knife as a knife etc.
Or am I on the wrong track altogether?
I would think you'd be better off working on something of more interest
to yourself.
Take a little thing you already have and use the books you've purchased
as
references to rewrite it as WebObjects. A phone directory, something
like that.
My experience with the examples is that they try to get you to do too
much at a
time.
Ask a ton of questions on the list. Try to go to Apple's training.
Try to get
a hold of Apple's training books.
My background looks like this: lots of web development but using
scripting
languages, so my thinking is still fairly procedural.
A procedural mentality is very very bad for this sort of thing. Here's
the
trick. When you use WO to create a popup list do you spend time
trying to figure out how to convert the selected string into something
else?
Here's a contrived example. I have a bunch of pets with associated
owners.
I create a popup list to display the pets' names. When a pet's name is
selected and
I hit submit I want to display the owner's address. How would you go
about
doing that?
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