A few good things happened today with reading. Firstly, it is a Saturday, a day when I do a little less than usual. Well, I did about 2+ hours of stuff with Objective-C today and I am happy to report that I finished chapter 16 pretty quickly. For exercise #7 I borrowed from exercise #6 and had to look online to get help with the answer. As for the last exercise, that one I pretty much figured out myself (using the book as a reference).
Then, lo and behold, chapter 17 on memory management came along and to my surprise, the chapter did not have any exercises. I gather this because most of the chapter has no real bearing on Xcode 4.2 and higher. Reason being is that Automatic Reference Counting takes care of memory management and garbage collection. This, to me is great news as I am not exactly sure how I would handle all that manual memory management.
In any event, chapter 17 was a read but not a deep read. If it ever gets to the point where I have to manage someone else's pre-Xcode 4.2 code, I guess I will have to adapt but for now I will depend on ARC.
Lastly, I have broken the page 400 barrier and am now up to the beginning of chapter 18 on page 413. This next chapter will deal with copying objects. Short chapter but we'll see if it is a painful one!
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