I have noticed that my attention span is waning. I am starting to lose patience with what Kochan expects of me as the novice. The end of chapter 15 is a completely nebulous galaxy of confusion. I punted on the last page and I know it will bite me again. I just don't get what he is trying to do. All the work I have done up to now I thought would be a bedrock for future work. But he keeps piling on new stuff where I am not easily able to quantum leap into. As I now begin the exercises, I begin with huge amounts of trepidation. My guess is that I will not be able to answer a single exercise without either going back into the chapter or going on the Answers page. The fortunate thing is that I am not at the end of my rope. I have to go at this language from multiple angles in order to get it. More on that later.
Exercise 1: disastrous. No idea of what I am doing. Truly no clue what the hell I am doing. I feel totally stupid. I checked other people's work and of course, they make it look easy. The only saving grace is that hundreds of people checked out other people's work so I am as stupid as the rest.
Since Exercise 1 was so disastrous and now exercise 2 is not good either, I have decided to re-read the entire chapter 15. This kind of feels like a forest from the trees moment as I may look back at this period as pivotal step in my Objective-C growth or the time where things are starting to wane into oblivion. I'll choose growth for now and we'll talk in a month.
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