Comments on: Getting Started with Cocoa and Objective-C http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/02/getting-started-with-cocoa-and-objective-c/ Matt Long's Blog About Programming and Stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: perlmunger http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/02/getting-started-with-cocoa-and-objective-c/#comment-16731 perlmunger Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:31:19 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/02/getting-started-with-cocoa-and-objective-c/#comment-16731 You're right, I do assume a certain level of knowledge for my xCode 3 tutorial. I would be glad to help you, but when you say your are a "complete beginner" do you mean you're a complete beginner at programming or you have some programming experience and you're a complete beginner at Cocoa programming? If you don't know the answer to these fundamental questions, then you probably won't be able to start with the xCode tutorial and understand it. - What is a variable? - What is a function? - What are conditionals? - What are loops for? - What is an object? You can learn all of these things within the Cocoa/Objective-C context, but again I wouldn't start with the xCode 3 tutorial. I would start at <a href="http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/" rel="nofollow">Cocoa Dev Central</a>. There are some good tutorials there--though they haven't all been updated to work with xCode 3. Here are a couple tutorials I would start with: <a href="http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_cocoa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_cocoa/</a> <a href="http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000081.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000081.php</a> -Matt You’re right, I do assume a certain level of knowledge for my xCode 3 tutorial. I would be glad to help you, but when you say your are a “complete beginner” do you mean you’re a complete beginner at programming or you have some programming experience and you’re a complete beginner at Cocoa programming?

If you don’t know the answer to these fundamental questions, then you probably won’t be able to start with the xCode tutorial and understand it.

- What is a variable?
- What is a function?
- What are conditionals?
- What are loops for?
- What is an object?

You can learn all of these things within the Cocoa/Objective-C context, but again I wouldn’t start with the xCode 3 tutorial.

I would start at Cocoa Dev Central. There are some good tutorials there–though they haven’t all been updated to work with xCode 3. Here are a couple tutorials I would start with:

http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_cocoa/

http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000081.php

-Matt

]]> By: niteboater http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/02/getting-started-with-cocoa-and-objective-c/#comment-16720 niteboater Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:14:05 +0000 http://www.matthew-long.com/2007/11/02/getting-started-with-cocoa-and-objective-c/#comment-16720 was hoping I could start to learn programming via XCode. Figured, why not start with a tutorial. Unfortunatley, the plan here seems to be to dive right in, with nary an explanation as to why.... WHY do I even need a .m or .c or .h file to begin with ? why not throw all the code needed into a single file ? Hey - Im a complete beginner here so there must be some reason why things got to be at this level of complexity .... or are all these strange files just a hobbled mess ? was hoping I could start to learn programming via XCode. Figured, why not start with a tutorial. Unfortunatley, the plan here seems to be to dive right in, with nary an explanation as to why…. WHY do I even need a .m or .c or .h file to begin with ? why not throw all the code needed into a single file ?

Hey - Im a complete beginner here so there must be some reason why things got to be at this level of complexity …. or are all these strange files just a hobbled mess ?

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