Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
- Subject: Re: Getting Started with Objective C and Xcode?
- From: Thomas Wetmore <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:31:59 -0400
Objective-C is a front-end to C, so learning C, "the universal assembly language," is the first step. The second edition of K&R (the "C Programming Language") is available on-line at:
http://pelusa.fis.cinvestav.mx/tmatos/LaSumA/LaSumA2_archivos/Supercomputo/The_C_Programming_Language.pdf
This is all you need to learn C, the way the last two generations of geeks have learned it. Find out where "Hello, world" came from. It's very short and good.
Once you have C under your belt I recommend you read Apple's Objective-C 2.0 reference manual, not so long either, and just as free. By the time you're through these two you'll know enough to be dangerous.
Then there are plenty of nice Cocoa books to choose from, but you can find them and their reviews by Googling and searching on Amazon. My favorites include Hillegass's Cocoa book, Chisnall's Cocoa book, and the Cocoa design patterns book, but these are personal preferences only. I would avoid any book that has the word beginner in the title.
Tom Wetmore
On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Daniel Blade Olson wrote:
> I have been playing around with Xcode, examples, and tools. I have learned few basic things and can compile the examples and basic navigation of the tools.
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> I would like to start learning to actually write some of my own code now. I do have some basic understanding of C and Objective C concepts, but not familiar with the actual "languages"
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> Does anyone have any suggestions for getting started assuming no prior C knowledge? Every book I find assumes you already know C. It seems odd to learn C if my main objective is to code in Objective C.
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> Does anyone have any resources to jump right into Objective C head first?
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> I would appreciate any help.
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> Regards
>
> DBO
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