Pointers are challenging. They force you to reference in your head and since a reference can reference another reference, pointers can go on for quite awhile. I am not that kind of guy. I cannot do pI to 22,000 digits. I have no mnemonic device to do it.
I am angry at myself but really without reason. This weekend has been very busy and I have to tend to things that require my attention. If I did 2-3 hours of Objective-C this entire weekend, that would be a generous estimate. The bottom line is that I get a lot more done during the week and the weekends are a lot less. This has to change. We are already at the 10th of the month and I still have 200 pages left in the book, a book that I wanted to get done by the end of this month. Then there is the next book on the docket and probably some more conceptual OOP stuff thrown in there.
I am still scared and unsure of myself. Almost a month and a half in and I still feel extremely novicey. There seems to be a lot to learn at a conceptual level. Borrowing a built-in function like substr is easy but there are just concept after concept that has to be learned. Methods, structs, pointers, typedefs, classes, instance variables, synthesizers, the list goes on. Learn one new thing and right around the corner there is another things. And it is not like the new stuff is in a discrete little world. It dovetails with the prior learnings and even extends the old stuff into new structures.
Tomorrow I am going to reread pointers and hope that a lot of it sinks in.
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