Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Adriano Sica
From the thread starter Hello to everyone on this list. Whao, You are all amazing, fine people. You have all made my day even though I was ready for the worse if there were no chances at this. I will return the favor in the near future. I'd like to thank each and every single one for the resp

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Rob Ross
It has been my experience that it's much easier to learn programming in a procedure language than an OO-language. I don't think this will ever really change, since OO is an abstraction built on top of a procedural foundation, which is closer to how a CPU actually executes a software progr

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Joe Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > grab the ADC doc "The Objective-C 2.0 > Programming Langauge" and print a copy (I recommend getting it spiral > bound). While learning it's a great reference to help refresh you when you > get stuck. It may also confuse

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Toporek, Chuck
Thanks, mmalc, It's worth noting that Kochan is updating his book to cover Objective-C 2.0. >From what I'm told, that book should come out in October, and the first bits should be available in Rough Cuts early- to mid-August (see http://safari.informit.com/roughcuts). Also, Fritz Anderson has com

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Dave DeLong
The BYU CocoaHeads group is actively collecting links to just about every Cocoa related resource we can find. We have several pages to browse through: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources Cheers, Dave DeLong On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Toporek, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread mmalc crawford
On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Joe Kavanagh wrote: Then I echo the recommendation for Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming and as an added recommendation -- grab the ADC doc "The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Langauge" and print a copy (I recommend getting it spiral bound). While learning it's

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Jason Coco
Also, if you do choose to get Hillegass's book, keep in mind that the current edition (3rd Edition) is for Xcode 3.x/Obj-C 2.0... so if you're sticking to 2.5, I suggest trying to find a copy of the 2nd edition somewhere. If you print out the Obj-C 2.0 reference as was suggested, note that

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Jul 11, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Jon Buys wrote: The best thing I can recommend is to buy the Cocoa Programming book by Hillegass: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321503619/bignerdranch-20 If you have no programming experience, this is probably too advanced a starting point. Start with

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Joe Kavanagh
Hi, I understand where you're coming from having just come down this road not to recently myself... The path I took was Learn C -> Obj-C -> Cocoa. It worked really well because it went from the most basic to the more advanced starting at quite a low level. The C tutorial I used was htt

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Toporek, Chuck
You might also look for a CocoaHeads group near you (http://www.cocoaheads.org), and start combing through blogs of other Mac developers (see http://www.cocoablogs.com/). Chuck On 7/11/08 9:30 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello forum, > This is my very first post and wil

Re: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Jon Buys
I'm in the same boat. The best thing I can recommend is to buy the Cocoa Programming book by Hillegass: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321503619/bignerdranch-20 I'm halfway through, working on the chapter 18 challenge. Between that book, Apple's developer web site, and this mailling lis

RE: Learning How to Program in Objective-C

2008-07-11 Thread Luca Ciciriello
Hi. You are right. If you have no programming experienced at all, yours will be a very long journey. Anyway you can start with a good tutorial in OOP (object oriented programming) and then start to learn some basis of Objective-C and COCOA framework. Yes, Xcode 2.5 on 10.4.11 (2.5 is the last