Back to the drawing board

I’m finding Cocoa very hard. A few months ago, Aidan spent some time to coach me through the basics and while that went on I managed to get a lot of ‘relatively’ advanced things done. Going back to the code I wrote, even with the benefit of several weeks of writing out the examples in … Continue reading “Back to the drawing board”

I’m finding Cocoa very hard. A few months ago, Aidan spent some time to coach me through the basics and while that went on I managed to get a lot of ‘relatively’ advanced things done. Going back to the code I wrote, even with the benefit of several weeks of writing out the examples in the book I bought and I’m lost. So it’s very much back to the drawing board.

this highlights some things to me.

  1. Programming is hard. There’s no escaping it. It’s not something that everyone will pick up.
  2. Programming requires focus. You need to pay attention to it. Otherwise you won’t learn.
  3. Programming takes time. You’re not going to learn overnight. You need to look at it daily.

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0 thoughts on “Back to the drawing board”

  1. I think #3 is the key. It takes time and it has to be daily. Ideally, you want a few weeks of nothing but coding to really get over that initial hump. After that, it becomes a lot more incremental.

  2. Well, this is the hard part. How to lose weight, maintain a family, maintain a day job, maintain a business at night, write a book…

    …and learn to program…

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