Forging ahead with Objective-C

So, I've decided to stick with Objective-C for the time being. Primarily, I feel that this will still give me the best chance of landing a developer job within the next six months. While so much attention is turned to Swift, and I'll move to it soon, so much of the framework is built around Objective-C it's still relevant and necessary. 

Only two hours of studying yesterday, so I'll look make up a bit of time today. 

Forging ahead with Objective-C

So, I've decided to stick with Objective-C for the time being. Primarily, I feel that this will still give me the best chance of landing a developer job within the next six months. While so much attention is turned to Swift, and I'll move to it soon, so much of the framework is built around Objective-C it's still relevant and necessary. 

Only two hours of studying yesterday, so I'll look make up a bit of time today. 

First Meetup!

Hello all!

Attended my first meet up tonight, and it was great!  There were just a few guys there - a low turnout in their estimation.  After talking with them, they suggested that I switch gears (again) and focus on Swift.  Since the announcement that it will become open-source, they predicted even bigger things for the new language, and thought it best if I just in with both feet.  I'm still a little skeptical, but when I think about the arc I want my career to take, I will be using Swift far more than Objective-C, so perhaps this advice is sound.

I think that I'll view some of the training on Lynda.com tonight, and see how I feel about it in the morning.  Hopefully, a decent night's sleep and some perspective will help me figure out my next steps.

Let's get cracking!

Already making changes

Hello all,

I decided to move the blog from the old spot on Tumblr to Blogger.  Why, you ask?  Flexibility, for the most part.  It seems as if I will be able to do more with the Blogger account than the Tumblr account.  Blogger was suggested to me upfront, but I didn't take the advice - so typical!  No big loss, as I only had a few posts on Tumblr anyway.  I've copied two over today, and I'll be starting with fresh content tomorrow.

As for now, I have only put in one hour of coding so far, and didn't get much time over the weekend, so I feel a bit out of touch.  I have been working hard on learning git and began using it today in Xcode.  So far so good, I guess, but we'll see if I can learn to navigate it well enough for my own purposes.  I also restarted the 'Objective-C Programming - The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition)' book again.  I've worked through it before, but I'm really trying hard to get the fundamentals down before moving on.  I find that I keep getting to new information, don't really understand it, and instead of doubling-down and staying with it until it makes sense, I keep pushing forward, hoping that I can connect the dots later.  So far, that hasn't happened, so I want to start fresh.  This way, I'm hoping to build a solid foundation to work off of later.

Time to study.  Thanks, everyone!