Today I finished all (well, almost all) of the exercises in chapter 4 on data types. I feel I am getting it a little more and more each day. Way too much structured syntax but hey this is the real deal so I have to abide.
As I was working through the exercises I hit a snag on the Rectangle class. It would not accept the code even though I thought it was right. Turns out there is a Rectangle class that already exists. My compiler kept rejecting it as an attempt to duplicate an existing class. Took me a little to figure it out but when the Rectangle was renamed, poof, everything worked.
The one exercise I did not finish was the one on imaginary numbers. Really had no idea what the writer was talking about so I skipped it. I made up for it by doing all of the problems by using a class even though it was not necessary.
I worked 3.5 hours today and am now up to page 74. I am about 15% of the way through the book but I am guessing it will get harder as I go along.
I am a little miffed at myself for not considering taking the severance package from my company when it was offered to me. I could have retooled with a lot of technologies while getting paid a full year. Dumb fear and lack of self-confidence kicking in again. I could have really become pretty good at something or two if I had that full year to work with. Then again, I am still employed at the company so all is not so bad. I am learning, albeit slower than if I had a year to kick things around.
Well, anyway, excited about tomorrow in doing chapter 5. Learning the Objective-c way of doing for, while, and do loops. I have read a few pages, and so far, it seems pretty straighforward.
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