The day’s lessons were much more of a refresher course than anything else. There were no standout challenges, nor any revelatory discoveries. But, a few things did strike me. The learning process, thus far I need to be careful about waiting too long between the studies and the related blog. The things that were fresh […]
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This was the day I started to feel my energy wane a little. Maybe it was the rain and the bitter cold we experienced yesterday, but it was definitely more difficult than usual to focus on studies. However, perseverance paid off and I did successfully complete the five chapters (16-20). As is always the case […]
I’m getting faster Every day around lunch it feels almost impossible to finish all five chapters for the day, yet every day I finish earlier and earlier. I feel my confidence returning rapidly and having such a short period of time between lessons makes it easier to understand relationships between concepts, and to see how […]
Continuing with a refresher crash-course in Cocoa, courtesy of Aaron Hillegass’ “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition.” Five chapters a day for one week; so far, I’m on schedule. Interface Builder is confusing This came to light while working on Chapter 6, “The NSTableView and Its Datasource”. Understanding where the wiring for different […]
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: five chapters a day, for one week It would be fair to say I’ve gotten a wee-bit rusty with my Objective-C / Cocoa skills since being laid off last summer. Life, as it so often does, simply interceded for a while and demanded a good portion of my attention. […]