Made it through the Spiderworks book on C just fine. Made it halfway through the Apple book, The Objective-C Programming Language… and then… my eyes started to glaze over. I think the real reason is, I need practical experience with this stuff—the C book had exercises I could do, and most of the chapters I…
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C, ObjC, Cocoa… little steps
I’ve been meaning to learn Mac programming with Cocoa for two years now, and finally am getting off my ass. Since the first of the year, I’ve gone through Spiderworks’ “Learn C on the Macintosh” eBook. Just finished that last night, now I’m starting Apple’s PDF doc “The Objective-C Programming Language,” and then after than…
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses, Part 1 and Part 2. Nice scratching the surface of the way Cocoa’s classes think, and clearer that some of the books I have in its explanations of same. Never mind— I’m still confused. See, this is why I figure it’ll take at least three books, all by…
Ask MetaFilter
Turns out Ask MetaFilter is an excellent resource for a lot of questions. For my reference, my questions: Archiving family photos Best path to Mac OS X programming with Objective-C and Cocoa
PT-7, Evening Edition
Silly me— all this time, I thought the Casio PT-7 only came in a cream color, but this fellow has on on eBay, and it’s black. Very cool.
Urban Adventure and Exploration
Ever wonder what’s happened to abandoned subway stations in NYC and other modern ruins? Check out some of them on the Minneapolis Urban Adverturers’ missions page, and other member sites of the Urban Exploration Ring.
Attack of the Goat
Apparently last night, Mark’s game Goat in the Grey Fedora appeared on Attack of the Show on G4/TechTV.