Comments on: Learning a new programming language http://tewha.net/2009/10/learning-a-new-programming-language/ Links and writings on software development, mostly for iPhone and Mac OS X. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/2009/10/learning-a-new-programming-language/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Steven Fisher Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:59:13 +0000 http://tewha.net/?p=1077#comment-280 I hear you, Howard. I bounced from Pascal to C++ about three years ago, and from C++ to Objective-C this year. You might think knowing C++ made it easier, but it actually made it harder. C++ was the Russian in my case. The parts you need to know about C to learn Objective-C are mostly simple enough that I already knew most of them just from accessing stuff I needed to in C from my Pascal projects. Which is why the only real approach to learning Objective-C to burry yourself in it. I hear you, Howard. I bounced from Pascal to C++ about three years ago, and from C++ to Objective-C this year. You might think knowing C++ made it easier, but it actually made it harder. C++ was the Russian in my case.

The parts you need to know about C to learn Objective-C are mostly simple enough that I already knew most of them just from accessing stuff I needed to in C from my Pascal projects.

Which is why the only real approach to learning Objective-C to burry yourself in it.

]]> By: Howard Price http://tewha.net/2009/10/learning-a-new-programming-language/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Howard Price Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:41 +0000 http://tewha.net/?p=1077#comment-279 Man does that ever sum it up. I came from a non-object oriented background. Converting from Pascal to Objective C was like getting a Russian to teach a Frenchman how to speak Japanese. There was a lot lost in translation.... Man does that ever sum it up. I came from a non-object oriented background. Converting from Pascal to Objective C was like getting a Russian to teach a Frenchman how to speak Japanese. There was a lot lost in translation….

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