Although I am up to page 313, I felt it necessary to purchase another Objective-C book as I foresee myself not being ready to go into the iOS Ranch Guide upon completing this book. Although this is disappointing, the bottom line is that I need more understanding for C. Consequently I am picking up Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide. Yes, this is not a "C" book. I may purchase one of those anyway but this Nerd Ranch book supposedly starts with an in-depth discussion of the "C" language. Maybe I will finally be able to synthesize the concepts of pointers.
Well, anyway, I finished the exercises in chapter 13 today of the Kochan Book. I even went back read that section that I had omitted earlier (pg 287). That section was actually pretty easy to understand (++i vs. i++). Next I blew through the very brief introduction on the Framework (chapter 14). There were no exercises in this chapter so I moved into chapter 15. This chapter discusses Numbers, Strings and Collections. It starts with Number Objects and it calls on methods in the NSNumber class. I typed out Program 15.1 to try to get a thorough understanding of things. I find myself challenged as to when to use alloc and when not to use alloc. Stupid stuff but so not obvious to me.
Anyway, although this will probably set me back into August, I think (or hope) in the long run I will be better off as I will have a better base knowledge to get me nearer the promised land.
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