Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

As I read Aaron's book, I feel as though my inner visualisation of the Cocoa framworks as described by the myriad of classes, beautifully organised intelligently, in a stunning hierarchy, is developing into something that I will be able to use to create applications. Each new chapter brings new and useful ways of spawning objects from the frameworks.

As I garden the frameworks, I conceptually tie various objects together with messages. I can see them sending little notification objects to the notification centre. And then other objects owning others. Shuffling about at the direction of other objects in their own fantastic ecosystem that I'll call an application.

I'm also finally feeling better about the Objective-C syntax that I now realise I only stumbled though previously. I can look at the code and not see code, but my ecosystem of objects. The code is how I direct what happens.

I'm half way though the book now. I don't pertain that I could go and practically do every example tutorial I've followed all on my own, but I'm learning conceptually what's going on, so when I go to documentation or reference, I know what they're going on about.

So that's something.