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Re: [Tutorials] Objective-C & Cocoa Mac Application Developm

Post by nil » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:53 am

White Knightmare wrote:...but Sparky is implementing the songs into Zeus so development of his method corresponds with development of Zeus
I doubt this is the case. I think it has nothing to do with Zeus. I agree with your post otherwise.

Dirk is correct and what I am specifically referring to in Obj-C 2.0 is properties.
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Post by Sparky » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:52 pm

I know about @property and @synthesize already, but I have yet to decide to use them in Zeus. Thanks for the reminder, though.

And I thought you meant protocols, which I will probably use in Zeus.

And about the Song class tutorial, I didn't do anything except what was in the tutorial where all the code was given, so that's why I asked if you read the tutorial so that you would see that I'm not doing anything new besides adding paraphrased comments to the code. I'm holding off on another code example until I can wrap my head around some information and go through the tutorials linked on this page:
http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/

The above tutorials are great, but not as well composed-out, to borrow a musical term, as the O'Reilly Commons wiki book.
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Post by Sparky » Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:02 am

Those tutorials at Cocoa Dev Central, especially this one -- http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/d/learn_objectivec/ -- are very hard to understand, almost like Wikipedia pages. I recommend the following order of research when studying Objective-C:

1. http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000081.php -- Cocoa Dev Central's C tutorial as an intro to Objective-C (time: 1 hour)
2. http://thenewboston.org/watch.php?cat=33&number=1 -- all 65 of these videos, one after the other. Type in the code examples into XCode for at least the first 10 or so tutorials. (time: 7 hours)
3. http://cocoadev.com/wiki/CocoaStepOne -- glance through this briefly (time: 4 minutes)
4. http://cocoadev.com/wiki/ModelViewController -- read this section: "or to put it another way" (time: 5 minutes)
5. http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.p ... bjective-C -- spend about an hour reading through sections of O'Reilly's wiki book (time: 2 minutes to 1 hour)
6. check out these video playlists, which you can oftentimes skim through:
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD05642AD0D531E1B -- especially the last two tutorials on bits, bytes, and bitwise operations as they are applied to file drag-and-drop in Cocoa
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL38860A77CF9B4923
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE83F832121568D36
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCB7A73F3F614BCA0
7. ???
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Re: [Tutorials] Objective-C & Cocoa Mac Application Developm

Post by nil » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:21 am

I'm just going to note from my experience:

Most programming is learnt by simply doing it and practice. Reading just tutorials and videos alone is not going to get anyone far. That's why the most productive people start out with creating simple computer programs, which leads to faster progress later on. Aaron's book is pretty well known in the community for learning Cocoa. It is just meant to get you on a grasp of how to learn the API and read from the documentation; it's by no means meant to cover everything. The exercises in there are a necessity as well to learning.
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Post by Modzy » Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:58 pm

There are several courses on Objective-C on iTunes. They are complete video recordings of Standford lectures in Objective-C courses over a whole term. I believe the iTunes courses also come complete with class work and homework. You should consider *taking* a course like that.

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Re: [Tutorials] Objective-C & Cocoa Mac Application Developm

Post by Sparky » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:03 pm

Modzy wrote:There are several courses on Objective-C on iTunes. They are complete video recordings of Standford lectures in Objective-C courses over a whole term. I believe the iTunes courses also come complete with class work and homework. You should consider *taking* a course like that.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/codi ... d593208016
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