Big Nerd Ranch Day 01

Today ends Day One of the Seven Day boot camp. Today was an intensive review of C, and an introduction to Objective-C. For me, it was a great class. Mark, our instructor did a great job explaining the topic. We started off slow, with variables, then going into loops, functions, structures, enumerations, and moving onto extending the C language and an introduction to Objective-C and object oriented programming. All at the same time building up our familiarity with XCode. It was a large amount of data to absorb, and even though there are similarities to Java and Actionscript, Objective-C definitely has it’s quirks to get used to. Having met many of the class members already over meals, it was good to see how much of a diverse group we have. There are some that have never programmed before, others haven’t in a long time, and some that come from different programming backgrounds. A few own their own company, and others work for companies like Adobe. We even have someone from Apple, who is one of their Genius technicians. I’m definitely enjoying the environment. It’s nice to be in a place that isn’t an office building. The nature walk in the afternoon was great, it really got the blood flowing and got me out of my oncoming food coma.

Tomorrow will be more hardcore Object Oriented programming in Objective-C. I know most of the concepts of OOP, but application in Objective-C is different than know about OOP.