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cmando
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Hey forum-goers. Does anyone have any good links or books about learning Objective C. I have no programming knowledge whatsoever, but would like to learn. Thanks for any help!
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ionstream
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Posted: 12th Mar 2011 06:18
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I can't give you any Objective C help, but I can give you Subjective C help.

When your laughing desists, this site is good:

http://cocoadevcentral.com/

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cmando
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If this was facebook, i would like that comment. Thanks!
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JoelJ
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Posted: 13th Mar 2011 05:28
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is an awesome book.

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Van B
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Posted: 15th Mar 2011 12:49
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Objective-C for a first programming language might not be the easiest or most effective choice. I would suggest learning a higher level language before tackling Obj-C, maybe even C/C++ itself. You can use C and C++ in XCode, in fact there's very little Obj-C code in my iOS project, the whole game is written in C++, with Obj-C for the cocoa and deep internal stuff (which I don't understand).

Try not to become one of 'those' iOS developers who drag and drop their applications together - unless you only want to make shallow little apps, egg timers and pointless stuff like that.

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Dazzag
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If you have experience in DB then try GLBasic. Works pretty well and has a similar syntax to DB. People on there have gone from zero iOS and C experience to releasing full games on the app store in only a few weeks.

Cheers

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cmando
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@Van B-I didnt know that Xcode supported C++. if so, can you point me at a good website as i kniw nothing about coding in those types of language.
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Van B
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Yeah, if you use .mm extensions it uses C++, using delegates and setting up the EAGLView etc with code. I can't really help or offer real advice on this though, the base framework I'm using isn't mine. From what I gather, it's more restricted to work like that if you want to mix Obj and C++, but setting up an interface class then doing everything in C++ is quite straightforward. I'm sure you can find a framework to start from, maybe something with GLES sprites and a sound engine.

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JoelJ
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Personally I actually like objective-c over C++. The syntax isn't the greatest but you get used to it. I think it's just fine for a first language. Especially compared to c or c++. objective-c is just as "low level" as c++ is. They use the same compiler (gcc and/or llvm) and both compile down to machine code

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Van B
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When learning though, I think it's best to go for the language with the most resources. With C++, you get stuck, and your usually unstuck within 5 minutes googling, that's what I found at least.

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