Any iOS developers on here

littlened · 6th July 2011, 03:00 PM

Just asking because I'm trying to get into it, but compared to PHP, .NET (c#) and Javascript etc it's bloody difficult to get your head around. I think it's more objective-c that's getting me.

Its very highly object orientated, to the point that even variable types are objects.

Any iOS developers out there? how did you find the learning curve?

jhs2 · 6th July 2011, 03:03 PM

Like a foreign language that like.

Wilfy · 6th July 2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jhs2

Like a foreign language that like.

Ya right there.

Hauser's-Helmet · 6th July 2011, 03:24 PM

Piece of piss, just get on with it man.

ayesane · 6th July 2011, 03:32 PM

If you know clr/oop type languages it's a matter of syntax. It's drastically different to php, and other popular scripting languages.

Learn it's messed up syntax and it's no different to java/c#.

littlened · 6th July 2011, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ayesane

If you know clr/oop type languages it's a matter of syntax. It's drastically different to php, and other popular scripting languages.

Learn it's messed up syntax and it's no different to java/c#.

Yeh I'm used to OOP, because although PHP doesn't force you to use it, I tend to use objects a lot.

When I want to do something, I know how I need to do it, it's just figuring out how you do it in objective-c. You can't just set a variable, it's got to be declared somewhere in the header file, and depending on what it's allocated as depends on what you can do with it, then theres the retain/assign shit anarl.

It's odd, just going to take time to get used to it.

I build a calculator the other day, it looks shit but I should put it on the app store for 59p, some fucker will buy it

jhs2 · 6th July 2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Wilfy

Ya right there.

It all seems terribly boring as well.

ayesane · 6th July 2011, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by littlened

Yeh I'm used to OOP, because although PHP doesn't force you to use it, I tend to use objects a lot.

When I want to do something, I know how I need to do it, it's just figuring out how you do it in objective-c. You can't just set a variable, it's got to be declared somewhere in the header file, and depending on what it's allocated as depends on what you can do with it, then theres the retain/assign shit anarl.

It's odd, just going to take time to get used to it.

I build a calculator the other day, it looks shit but I should put it on the app store for 59p, some fucker will buy it

Well it's just a matter of time, took me about 20 minutes to grasp the syntax changes, still learning the framework mind.

Keep grafting it, you'll get there.