Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : colo
DATE : Mon Mar 24 21:03:09 2008

Thank you all from both of the message threads. I have desided not to
wait and try my hand at reading the Apple docs again.

Things like oop and mvc are simple to understand for me and have been
drilled quite extensively into my head from Ruby and Rails now. My
biggest goal is to make a css drawing app atm. So Cocoa ui wigets
those found in Pages for ex have been my biggest hurdle trying to get
ruby to create such things.

But I do not wish to use the bridge options yet I would rather do it
right in one place than trying to glue it together and spend days not
"getting it"



On 3/24/08, Bill Cheeseman <<email_removed>> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>  --
>
>  Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
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