macOS New to Programming Forum just wanted to introduce myself!

[jshdeal]

Hello My name is Joshua,

I'm new as a poster "a little tired at the moment excuse my grammar". I haven't really posted in the forum before. I've been a loyal reader of MacRumors now for quite a long time now also a huge big time fan of All Tech / Mostly Apple tho. I Love all types of gadgets mostly Apple products mainly because I own more of them. I really enjoy using XCode alot more than I did Visual Studios through the years when I was using the windows platform. I love all the fun stuff that comes with it XC & my Mac Products. I have to say I love coding in Obj-C I don't know how I went all these years programming in different languages!

I enjoy programming so much! “Whatever I did without X-Code & OBJ-C IDK” When I’m not playing around with my guitar and harp of course… “Thank you Mr. Jobs & CO for making Garage Band as without it I would be out so much money on things other than Apple products ”. Most of my time I try to learn as much as I can by fooling around by doing some idiotic project to do something for me because i am too lazy to do it on my own by just clicking on a few things. I find doing things that way is the best way to learn in my case. I hope to show you all some of the things I know as well as teach others and help out with questions when I can.

I've rambled on now too much but hey, like I said my name is Joshua I code & play music. Hope to talk to you guys more here in the programming forum and other sections about anything and everything that has to do with being an apple fan / dev.

Thank you for reading my rambling at 5am. Now maybe I can answer some questions and get some help with some of my own ☺ Nice to meet you all in advance!

*Sorry if this seems to be offtopic or needs to be in another forum. It was meant to go out to the ios/osx devs on the forum so i can get in touch with them and introduce myself. you may move this thread if it does not meet req for this forum*

Thank's Again,
Joshua

 

[unplugme71]

Congrats on picking up Obj-C. I'm having tons of trouble myself - especially understanding the whole classes thing.

I've programmed a little bit in C++ back in 2001 and I've made some very simple programs that ran in command line but nothing that ever had a GUI or even wrote or read to/from a file.

I've also programmed in PHP - and that seemed to be the easiest for me but I haven't done anything since 2009 with PHP and it's changed quite a lot. Again, never worked with classes or much OOP with it.

I'm trying to get back into programming today and I've been reading the "Programming in Objective-C, 4th ed" which is available for free online to try and dive in. I followed their sample codes and while I can make it run, I'm still having blocks learning some of the concepts.

 

[PatrickCocoa]

Welcome!

Wish you the best!

Here are a few resources on interacting with the natives.

1. Post your code. Use the code tags (#) when submitting.
2. Post your error message. Cut and paste, don't paraphrase.
3. Post what it is you're trying to accomplish.
4. Set up a small test case that isolates (what you think is) the problem.
5. Post your exact situation - version of Xcode, target iOS, etc. 20 posts in you don't want to say you're on Xcode 3 targeting iOS 4.2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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