Meseret Gebre

Objective-C Breaking it down

// July 25th, 2009 // Objective-C

It has been a week since I started this adventure of learning a new programming language. Objective-C is interesting to say the least. My first experience with this language did not go so well. I think it had to do with the bias I had about it. You know, things I hear from friends, and how the language had ugly syntax. After working with it and learning a lot of what Objective-C had to offer. One thing that I like about Objective-C is that capability to directly code in C. Hence, if you ever come to a situation where you needed to improve execution time, you can code critical sections of your code based with C!

The OO features are also very powerful. Everything from categories to selectors to protocols are cool concepts. I will post about these features in future posts. The part that annoyed people the most is how you invoke and define methods, but this grows on you as you program.

I wrote a post about documenting my learning adventure, but I now take it back. There will be too many assumptions I would have to make to explain everything. Also, there is simply to much to the language to post about. Instead I will start a simple project to get as much development time with the language as I can. This is the project that I will post about. Using the example, I will post about some important concepts of Objective-C.

I have decided to make tic-tac-toe. I will purposely try to use as many features of the languages as I can. So stay tuned until the next post. Also if anyone has questions concerning the language, let me know I would love to hunt down the answer, it helps me learn