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[Andrew Robinson]

I would love an Objective C primer that assumes you know Basic, rather
than all these ones that assume you either know nothing, or some other
brand of recent language.

Objective C is making sense to me, because I can understand the
underlying assembler opcodes, but the syntax is annoyingly unfamiliar,
and the tutorials I have tried seem to place huge emphasis on a)
functions, b) pointers and c) structs, which don't have equivalents in
Basic, and therefore I'd be happy not knowing about until I was
writing something a) large b) highly optimised or c) involving a
database respectively.

- Andy_R

2008/12/2 Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>:
> Andrew Robinson schreef:
>
>> Funny that we should get onto the subject of xylophones, I'm currently
>> trying to get to grips with the iPhone SDK and (for a nice easy first
>> app) write a simple xylophone - there isn't a free one, and I have
>> ideas for a nicer 'pro' paid version at minimum store price.
>> Unfortunately getting to grips with objective C isn't a quick process
>> for my aging mind, especially as all the tutorials all start of with
>> 'It's a lot like C++', which I don't know, all the C++ tutorials start
>> off with 'It's a lot like C', which I don't know.? What I actually
>> know are Basic, Actionscript, Z80 assember,  6502 assember, Ample and
>> a smattering of Pascal. Currently I'm learing C, then unlearning C and
>> learing C++ 'on the fly' then unlearning C++ and relearning Objective
>> C 'on the fly'.
>
> Oh dear, poor thing. :)
>
> Unless you have a clear requirement to learn C++, I'd stay away from it.
> Even from C, perhaps. C++ is a rather complex language, and cryptic in
> an attempt to retain C source compatibility. C is not object-oriented,
> and could teach you the wrong approach.
>
> Trust Apple to use a language that nobody else still uses...
>
> - Peter
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