As someone who was a teenager who couldn’t afford books up through 2009 or so, most of my learning of Obj-C and Cocoa came through scraping the internet for blogposts on whatever subtopic I needed to know about. Occasionally you’d run into a full fledged tutorial, which were gold mines. At one point, I made AIM friends with a couple of people who were more knowledgeable than myself which was a great help, and later on Stack Overflow appeared which let me both ask questions and peruse the answers to others’ questions.
It was kinda rough, and I didn’t get to the point to where I could build useful things until the late 2000s and early 2010s… just in time to dovetail into iOS development (which I’ve now been doing as my job for the better part of a decade).
The cornucopia of free resources that are available to new learners today is a ridiculously stark contrast to how it was back then.
It was kinda rough, and I didn’t get to the point to where I could build useful things until the late 2000s and early 2010s… just in time to dovetail into iOS development (which I’ve now been doing as my job for the better part of a decade).
The cornucopia of free resources that are available to new learners today is a ridiculously stark contrast to how it was back then.