Learning Cocoa/Objective-C
I've been looking at what it would take to write applications on Mac OSX.
To provide you with a little perspective on my experience, I come from a Microsoft-centric, Visual Studio background when it comes to applications programming. I have used Java, but that was a long time ago. I'm no stranger to the C based syntax, or object oriented programming. It's definitely a different world using XCode and Objective-C.
It seems that most Mac developers use Objective-C. There might be a few peeps still programming Cocoa with C these days, but from what I've seen, they appear to be in the minority.
Objective-C 2.0 came out with Leopard, and makes programming for the Mac a little less intimidating, the biggest game-changer being garbage collection. Objective-C, however, has a syntax that I'm still trying to come to grips with. It's not the logic part that's bothering me, either, since anyone who has seen PHP or JavaScript code has seen the basics of programming C.
The funniest thing is that the things that are confusing me are so... trivial and dumb. I just need a good explanation of the symbols that are used. By symbols, I mean [, *, @ and :. Out of all the great tutorials I've seen, I haven't seen a great explanation of the use of these symbols.
Of course, whether I actually write an app will be dependent on how much time I have to dedicate to building something. With so many ideas that I'd like to execute, I guess the odds are slim to none. In any case, outside of the syntactical dyslexia that I have, there's a lot to like about Objective-C. I love that, unlike Java, that there is no strict typing.
Alas, enough bitching. Time to just start playing with the IDE.
To provide you with a little perspective on my experience, I come from a Microsoft-centric, Visual Studio background when it comes to applications programming. I have used Java, but that was a long time ago. I'm no stranger to the C based syntax, or object oriented programming. It's definitely a different world using XCode and Objective-C.
It seems that most Mac developers use Objective-C. There might be a few peeps still programming Cocoa with C these days, but from what I've seen, they appear to be in the minority.
Objective-C 2.0 came out with Leopard, and makes programming for the Mac a little less intimidating, the biggest game-changer being garbage collection. Objective-C, however, has a syntax that I'm still trying to come to grips with. It's not the logic part that's bothering me, either, since anyone who has seen PHP or JavaScript code has seen the basics of programming C.
The funniest thing is that the things that are confusing me are so... trivial and dumb. I just need a good explanation of the symbols that are used. By symbols, I mean [, *, @ and :. Out of all the great tutorials I've seen, I haven't seen a great explanation of the use of these symbols.
Of course, whether I actually write an app will be dependent on how much time I have to dedicate to building something. With so many ideas that I'd like to execute, I guess the odds are slim to none. In any case, outside of the syntactical dyslexia that I have, there's a lot to like about Objective-C. I love that, unlike Java, that there is no strict typing.
Alas, enough bitching. Time to just start playing with the IDE.
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