Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread mmalc Crawford
On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Steve Steinitz wrote: On 4/3/09 4:40 PM, Biagio wrote: Hello. My first post. I'm learning to program using Xcode 3.1.2 in OS X Leopard. My current plan of attack is working through these books: Core Data is a wonderful, powerful technology that, to a certain exte

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Graham Cox
On 05/03/2009, at 8:01 AM, Jacob Rhoden wrote: When I was first learning, the thing that really helped getting me started is the Aaron Hillegass book I wholeheartedly second that. I think its explanation of memory management should be required reading for anyone starting out with Cocoa (

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Biagio
Everyone, This is EXACTLY the guidance I was hoping and crossing my fingers for. I hesitated to write a "thank you" so as to keep the noise on the list to a minimum, but as a newbie who was (honestly) nervous about posting, you've been incredibly welcoming and encouraging. Just wanted to say tha

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Steinitz
Hi Biagio On 4/3/09, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: would just like some guidance as to where to focus my attention after I get through the above books. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Core Data is a wonderful, powerful technology that, to a certain extent, makes persisten

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Jacob Rhoden
Hi, When I was first learning, the thing that really helped getting me started is the Aaron Hillegass book. This book should be enough to get you to the point where you can write basic applications. Once you have conquered the book, then the apple documentation at http://developer.apple.com/

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
Hi Biagio As a just-barely-ex-newbie myself I felt compelled to reply to this one. Although learning C is nice, you don't necessarily need a good knowledge of C programming to learn Obj-C. I did some very lightweight C in university a long time ago, but it was more than enough to get started wit

Re: Newbie: Learning path for my GTD app...

2009-03-04 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 4 Mar 2009, at 05:40, Biagio wrote: Hello. My first post. I'm learning to program using Xcode 3.1.2 in OS X Leopard. My current plan of attack is working through these books: Learn C on the Mac C All in One Desktop Reference for Dummies Learn Objective-C On the Mac Cocoa Programming for M