> So here i am digging into all aspects of programming, loving it like a new > challenge, or passion, or third arm whatever the term. I've purchased books, > installed apps, and have been a nightmare to my girlfriend as i barely sleep > at night. It's like a brand new toy and realm of binary wonders i've sunken > into with an aluminum body scaphander, and apnee seems like second nature in > this adventure.
> I've got one byte of smear though on my goggle, which is the problem with > debugging. Or coding colors and clauses slash comments for fast tracking > stuff i do by mistake leading me to errors. How do you guys do it? a 10 line > piece of code is fine, but when things start blowing out of proportion, and > become very unmanageable. Yes this the unfortunate side effect of writing code, especially when trying out new concepts and API's a lot of the time it wont Compile or if it does it crashes for some obscure reason. > Is there some form of error check function i could possibly use in x-code, > applescript and text editors to alleviate the infinite compile vo check back > loop? If you are completely VI then I would probably recommend turning on most of the helper functions that xcode offers, like putting closing curly braces in automatically, always saving unsaved files when building and enabling code completion. I am not completely VI and so do not rely on VO as such but these features do help t reduce some of the things that get in the way like forgot closing brace, misspelt api function names and the annoying "do you want to save this file" dialog when building. Also Aaron Hillegass book Cocoa Programming on Mac OS X is a great starting point if you have had a little experience. otherwise Learning Objective-C On the Mac by spiderworks publishing is a great place to start learning Obj-C from the command line and unix utils then into the xcode gui. email me off list if you would like electronic version of these great books. > Any pointers or links to sites will be greatly appreciated. HTH Kieren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
