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November 30, 2005

And on to a new thing

So I've finally done it. I've finally started to click with a language. It took countless books. The basic problem I've always had is getting past chapter 3 in any programming book. Most books, to me, seemed to be walking you up slowly to something, and then at chapter 4 went to a full run.

This isn't so bad if you have other people helping you, or if you have a lot of time, but I don't have either. It seems that lately when reading my concentration has gone south. That is until I started reading Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan.

There are a couple of flaws with most Cocoa books, or at least the ones I have. The biggest strangest problem is that they all assume that you know C. Or Java is apparently something else that you could know that would get you right into it all. Not knowing any of it, having only taken a beginners course in c++ many years ago (note: most of the stuff from that class that I learned soaked up all the alcohol I drank), this made it kinda impossibly hard to get to learn Cocoa.

I had then started to try to learn C. C is alright to learn on your own, many have done it. It just takes a bit more concentration than I've had for a long while.

So I gave up on learning code for 3 months altogether, thinking I needed break. I also looked for a new book. One from an author I'd never heard of, and not a lot of folks have apparently. Also I wanted it to teach me C and Objective C. I didn't need to know the Apple frameworks yet, just the rules of the language.

And I found it. Kochan's book is great, and I'm glad I got it. I'm already on chapter 6, and started reading it about a month ago, on and off.

Posted by Chris Forsythe at 08:43 AM | Comments (0)

November 16, 2005

Boredom and a change

So I've gotten bored posting once every 6 months about stuff. I'm going to still do it, but in general my "rawr" will become more of a repository of cool Cocoa hacks, along with other things. I'm giving folks posting privelages, and multiple people are going to post to the "rawr".

I'll be changing the template to be more maclike, and so forth. If anyone wants in, they should whois my domain and then email me.

- Chris

Posted by Chris Forsythe at 01:18 PM | Comments (0)