Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Fri May 16 02:03:55 2008

On May 15, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Bruno Sanz Marino wrote:

> The really first step with a language is allways to write code and 
> forget the "GUI" and the "buttons and windows" .....Then when you 
> know what are you doing and you can do what you want to do (like a 
> painter), you can think in the "GUIS" and all these stuff
>

I think this is a crucial point.

My guidance for Cocoa's alleged "steep learning curve" is, "Why are 
you making it steep?"
It reminds me of the clichéd joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." 
"Well, don't do that."

There are plenty of ways to ease yourself it Cocoa development, 
notably just as Bruno suggests here by ignoring the GUI and learning 
about the Objective-C language an the basics of the Foundation 
Frameworks.

Yet week in, week out, we see people who ignore the advice given in 
the documentation and try to learn Objective-C, Foundation, Interface 
Builder, *and* Cocoa bindings and Core Data all in one go.  It's no 
wonder it's daunting.

mmalc