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On 7/5/14, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, no one can even use Swift right now; you'll need Xcode 6, or at least > a beta of it. Plus, even as Swift takes over, plenty of the tutorials you > find will continue to be in Objective-C. Finally, most Cocoa and Cocoa Touch > headers will be in Objective-C for quite a while, I imagine, so if you ever > look at those to figure out how to do something or what a certain function > expects, you'll at least need to know how to read the language in a basic > way. As I said, I agree that Swift is worth learning and should be a > priority, but it's hard to learn a language your computer can't yet > recognize. This fall, once Yosemite comes out, that will be different, but > for now Objective-C is, to my knowledge, the only language non-beta Macs can > run. I'm not even mentioning C or C++. > On Jul 5, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why just objective c? Why not start out with Swift? >> Devin Prater >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Free is indeed best. :) I recommend simply googling "learn objective-c" >>> to start with, and reading the tutorials you find. Some will make more >>> sense than others, but which ones depend on your background, learning >>> style, and so forth. For using Xcode, www.applevis.com has a few guides >>> and forums you will probably find useful. I also put a podcast up there >>> that goes through a "hello world" app which should help to explain things >>> after you get through the basic layout stuff. Finally, I highly recommend >>> you join the sister list to this one, dedicated to blind programmers on >>> the Mac: >>> [email protected] >>> On Jul 5, 2014, at 8:30 AM, Dawn Benbow <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I've been a lurker on this list for a while now. I've become interested >>>> in learning how to program, specifically to build apps for iOS, to start >>>> with at least. But, I'm wondering where is a good place to start >>>> learning, and where are there good educational resources for learning >>>> that don't cost a lot of money. Free is best if possible! :) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Dawn >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
