Hi Biagio As a just-barely-ex-newbie myself I felt compelled to reply to this one.
Although learning C is nice, you don't necessarily need a good knowledge of C programming to learn Obj-C. I did some very lightweight C in university a long time ago, but it was more than enough to get started with Cocoa/Obj-C. *But* you should take advantage of the very nice documentation that Apple has ... the Cocoa and Obj-C guides are a great start. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html >From there you should be able to start digging into the specifics of what you need. For example ... if you take the other poster's advice and check out NSCoding ... you find the class reference here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Protocols/NSCoding_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html ... which has a link to the "companion guide" at the very top of the page: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Archiving/Archiving.html I found, for myself at least, the only way I could get a handle on what was happening was to read (practically) the whole guide from start to finish. But once that's done, you'll be in a much better spot to drill through the docs to find what you need, and to make choices about "how" to do things in your code. Also -- Hillegass' book is awesome (if you like the tutorial-style presentation); if you can work your way through that, you'll be in a good position from there on in to search the documentation for the rest of what you need. My only other comment is that I agree with the other poster who said that Core Data is not an intro-level technology. You'll be able to play around with it soon, but don't use it in your first app! Hope this helps. Good luck! -Ryan. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
