On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT), syntonica
wrote:
> I am new to Cocoa (about 3 weeks now) and have not done much
programming since the halcyon days of 16K RAM.
WoW! a whole 16K!!! I remember paying > $50 each in 1974 for surplus
1103's, the worlds first 1K dynamic RAM. (Yeah, I ju
On 22/06/2009, at 8:08 AM, syntonica wrote:
The paradigm shift from all data available at all times with all the
globals you can eat to private data has been a difficult one to make
for me.
I think most people who move to object-oriented programming from a
classical programming backgroun
Thanks All for your replies. I think I have seen the error of my ways
regarding the size of my class. Since I had two classes that were so
hopelessly intertwined, I put them together into one and now I see that I could
indeed have done it instead with two or maybe three. The paradigm shift f
On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:36 AM, syntonica wrote:
Hello All--
Hi Kevin,
I don't have much to add to the responses that others have already
given you for your other questions, but I'll address the question
below because I haven't seen anyone yet say what I'm about to say.
Finally, on a side
On Jun 21, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Justin Carlson wrote:
Finally, on a side note and because this is my first OOP, just how
big should a class get? Just as a rule of thumb. I have 700 lines
and 50 methods in my MyDocument class and it seems positively
bloated to me.
It probably is too large
How can I tell how computationally expensive a class or method is?
I've never been this far from the metal. Is there a corpus
somewhere listing this, or do programmers just know these things
from their experience?
Hi Kevin,
I recommend running Shark for tasks really want to inspect. It i
Kevin, I can't give definitive answers but I'll try.
I'm fascinated with the history of computers, so while I didn't
experience it I see where you're coming from.
Yes, we do have much more resources available now. I think you're
going to have to adjust to the fact that an identical app writ
