I took the plunge, bit the bullet, followed the crowd and clich\u00c3\u00a9d all the clich\u00c3\u00a9s. I bought a Mac, specifically a MacBook Pro from Late 2008. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already pre-emptively deleted a paragraph that sounded like gushing because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m honestly very impressed with OS X, moreso than I expected to be.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the reason I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing this post is that I bought this thing to write iOS apps on, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be sharing my experience learning, debugging, testing and (probably) swearing with all of you. I hope it is informative to some of you, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m coming from a background in function-oriented PHP. It has done everything I needed it to do, and while OO programming is definitely cleaner, more secure code, I have seen little appeal in such a mental overhaul of my approach. So I approach this with no small amount of trepidation, the tutorials I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read so far haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really clicked with me yet, and I still feel out of my depth. I have one app I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be working on right away, the series of posts will be mostly unfiltered, I will be learning, breaking things, and fixing things from post to post, so you get a feel of what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going through; my reasoning for this is that I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not the only one making this transition from function-oriented PHP to Objective-C and Xcode.<\/p>\n
The first post will be up before Friday, dealing mostly with Xcode and my understanding of things going in. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also revealing my studio name (obviously an important step in being an iPhone millionaire, much like how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153writers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will have a grand story in their head, but when you ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh, how far along is the book?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they respond with, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually written anything yet, but that part\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For the record, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. My studio name is awesome and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just have to deal with my hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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