Once upon a time I wrote a confession and then started on a journey to learn PHP. Admittedly I never got very far. Why? I honestly don’t know. I spent a good deal of every day for a few weeks reading books and going over examples with PolyVector. We set out a goal that even included the purchase of our iPhone. I continued reading a bit after that but never caught on. So continues my embarrassing nongeeky existence of programming impotence.
I know you have heard it before, but I would like to invite you on a new journey of mine, becoming an Xcoder. My goals will be to go through resources PolyVector and I find to bring me up from the lowest level of coding ignorance. Atomac will serve as a journal from time to time helping me discuss (or well at least air) what I have read (and hopefully retained) from day to day. Perhaps this will help some of you who aspire to begin programming new inspiration. Or I just want to think that Atomac serves some kind of purpose other than for PolyVector or (mostly) me to talk about ourselves.
So here’s where I am going to begin, I decided on starting with a free book in PDF put together by a few independent Mac developers on the very beginning introduction to Xcode, Mac Development, and Cocoa. The book is called Become An Xcoder. If anyone would like to toss more resources my way I am more than happy to give them a look over. Tomorrow (or close to it) should bring the first bout of entries regarding my progress.
I would love to tag along on your Xcode journey, but I’m already tripping over the stuff on my plate. So I will follow your adventure as best I can with the out of date programming knowledge that I have, and wish you well on your development.
Yay! I’m excited to hear about your ventures into coding. You definitely have to keep up the postings, help educate my sadly code-ignorant mind. :D
That’s a cool idea writing about your journey.
Thanks for the book hint, i’ll take a look at it as well.
Xcode is a very nice IDE, i cant complain about it since i just finished a small iPhone game and consider starting to write some small OS X apps as well.
I am still looking for the tubes to the internets. I am afraid programming is beyond me.
Hey! This is exciting. I would love to hear about your progress on this. There is absolutely no way I could learn how to program, so living vicariously through you will do! Good luck to you, Skunkie’s brain :D