New Book

I now am the owner of Programming in Objective-C by Shephen G. Kochan. I am learning more about the syntax of Objective-C. I am also becoming more familiar with the key differences between procedural languages such as C and object oriented languages like Objective-C. I am finding it very helpful to hand type the example programs directly from the book. By not using pre-typed source code files I am learning more quickly and completely.

The book is divided into two main parts. The first part is about Objective-C itself in general. The second part is more specifically about the Foundation Framework. Thus far this is proving to be a review of things I learned about C and new things about the Objective-C extensions to ANSI C that are very interesting. I will tell you more as my study progresses.

Book Learning

I recently bought Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X(Third Edition) by Aaron Hillegass. It will arrive soon and stortly thereafter a will be smarter. Until that magical day arrives I will continue learning the C fundamentals from Mister Dave Mark’s book. I am enjoying developing my knowledge of C based languages programming.

if (myProgram == loops) printf (“SCREAM!/n”) ; else printf(“I can comprehend this.”) ;

I am studying the book Learn C on the macintosh: Mac OS X Edition by Dave Mark. I recently read through chapter 6 about flow control. I think I need to slow down and study loops and other flow control methods in more detail. I felt like I needed a flow chart to understand where the execution was going from one function, to another, to another.

Loops inside other loops, it is sometimes hard to follow mentally. You need to step through it with the debugger one line at a time to get a complete understudying of the execution flow. I felt that this difficult to understand concept was being thrown at me all at once. I do not blame the author or publisher. Dave Mark seems to be an expert on the subject. I am new to computer programming and will have some hard times learning the basics. I did not have time to absorb, test and understand it completely. I know it is a whole programming language I am learning. I know it is complex. What would you recommend I study in order to get a more detailed and in depth understand ing of flow control with if statements and while and for loops?