Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : Bill Cheeseman
DATE : Mon Mar 24 18:45:56 2008

on 2008-03-24 1:02 PM, colo at <email_removed> wrote:

> Are there tutorials or some such for these Cocoa
> Release ideals or will I cross them when I read the pdf ?


If you have Apple's Developer Tools installed, you already have a ton of
Apple documentation about Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks. It ranges
from introductory/tutorial to advanced, with lots of sample code. It's
pretty well organized, too -- if you look around without a plan for a little
while, you should begin to see where to start and what to leave until later.

In particular, there are good documents on memory management of both kinds.

As to learning the language, if you enjoy reading a good manual, Apple's
document on the objective-C language is particularly useful, IMHO. I think
it is probably still true that you should also read a good introductory book
on C, at least as to its basic programming structures. As Erik said, you'll
also need to learn about C pointers, pointer arithmetic, C arrays, and some
other more abstruse stuff like the bitwise operators, but in my experience
you can push that pretty far down on your reading list.

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Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
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