{"id":1905,"date":"2015-01-27T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2015-01-27T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T09:00:51","slug":"standing-on-the-shoulders-of-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing on the Shoulders of Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Learning how to build\u00a0a simple iOS app has not been bad. There’s a lot of learning how to find things in Xcode (protip: get a 2nd screen) and familiarizing myself with\u00a0UIKit conventions. I completed the bitfountain iOS 7 course and have subscribed to more iOS newsletters than I care to admit.<\/p>\n

At a meetup last year, I had a discussion about\u00a0my choice to start with Objective-C. He asked me why I didn’t jump into Swift or use a tool like\u00a0PhoneGap. Fast forward several months to today, I’m very happy\u00a0I went with Objective-C<\/a>. Whenever I am unsure how to do something in Objective-C, there are endless helpful blog posts and StackOverflow discussions out there. Even blog posts written before 2010 can\u00a0be helpful. I am truly standing on the shoulders of all those heroic individuals who’ve tread down the path before me years ago.<\/p>\n

With Swift, I’m sure there’s great documentation out there, but my guess is that Swift today (the beginning of 2015) cannot compete with\u00a0the\u00a0thoroughness of\u00a0Objective-C edge cases discussed on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Access to simple, basic questions like converting a\u00a0NSUInteger to a\u00a0NSNumber are essential for those just starting out.\u00a0I’d like to use the example of an extremely beginner friendly resource, RailsCasts<\/a>, which taught you how to use run of the mill gems, like Devise, and helped create a new generation of developers.\u00a0Without a wealth of\u00a0beginner accessible resources, a language or framework can’t grow or grow as fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning how to build\u00a0a simple iOS app has not been bad. There’s a lot of learning how to find things in Xcode (protip: get a 2nd screen) and familiarizing myself with\u00a0UIKit conventions. I completed the bitfountain iOS 7 course and have subscribed to more iOS newsletters than I care to admit. At a meetup last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[1199,1198,1195,966,1173,1197,1196,1194,1200,1174,1193,1086],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-accessible","tag-beginner","tag-devise","tag-ios","tag-learning","tag-objc","tag-objectivec","tag-railscasts","tag-resources","tag-swift","tag-uikit","tag-xcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}