Very confusing [Objective-C Basics]

OK so after purchasing the book The Big Nerd Ranch Guide on Objective-C, going through about half of its content and then coming back here, I can safely say that I'm not stupid!

The teaching of Douglass Turner is awful to say the least. He's preaching to people who are already familiar with Objective-C instead of covering the basics for beginners. And even then he doesn't explain anything about what is happening on-screen.

If you feel mentally-challenged after watching his "Introduction" to Objective-C, I recommend you look elsewhere.

Well, this is bad explanation . The teaching here , on the video is bad .

Wait , this helped me to learn going throw basics

1. http://www.skillshare.com/classes/technology/Make-an-iPhone-App-for-iOS-7-with-Objective-C/2035485314

go on his, yes this is only one hour free but go on his profile or webiste on other thingy , and you will find it all free .

Later one after watching some of the basics there . I recommend to go and do crystal ball and afterwards look at this post i made :

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/objectivec-a-good-channel-that-offers-a-good-quality-and-covers-important-things

I hope this can help you .

Don't give up! The starte here is really hard .

Bdw if you have some money , you can look on lynda. Objective-C basics , its 25pounds per month , you could buy it for a month and learn all you need etc.. but don't say always there come here too in the time . But i recommend just to watch that and maybe som either things. Othervise treehoiuse is better in the job they do . Lynda is more of like software , movies edition etc...

Hope this post helps you

Hey Guys,

I'm just reading the comments here and I have to agree that I've personally found this particular course frustrating. I've been going to Lynda to learn Objective-C from Simon Allardice, and then coming back here. It just feels like Douglass is going waay too fast for someone who is new to programming.

I think the important thing is to not lose heart, be resourceful and take advantage of courses else where to bring you up to speed and then come back here to Tree House to resume with your iOS training.

Another free resource I've found useful are these YouTube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNMKHGyISQk&list=UULGiBzA8fGvwHhs8WBiWDug

These two guys in these YouTube videos go over the Objective-C syntax and concepts very slowly. They're set in the format of one guy being the beginner and the other the expert. So during the explanations the beginner guy will be like, "Wow, hang on a minute here, what do you mean by that, " or "why are you doing that to that function," ect it's in more of a conversational style.

Sometimes I just wish the treehouse videos weren't so scripted and polished - I wish the instructors, well, Douglass, in this case , would just slow down and relax a little, and maybe even break the whole dynamic of, "I'm reading this autocue, hope I don't crew up..." and just be real for a moment.

Talk to me like I'm in kindergarten please!! But, hey, this is all just my subjective opinion, and on the whole I'm very grateful for teamtreehouse.

Don't give up, it's supposed to be difficult, that's what makes it fun and that's why iOS developers get paid well. Now get to work!!

Best wishes, Mike

Seconded, would like the Obj C beginning redone.

Thanks for that Aurelian, I might sign up to Lynda first to get a solid introduction to Objective-C before coming back to Treehouse to follow the rest of the course more easily.

I have to agree with everyone above. I was very disappointed with the video. Treehouse needs to make it more transparent on the difficulty of this video. I was doing well before and I was pleased to find a one stop shop for programming and web development, and it's incredibly frustrating to potentially spend more money on courses just to take this one. I'll try to take the free ones but I really just wanted to go to one place when I started learning.

I don't get it at all. I'm confused on how this works.

Guys , heres another good , i mean on a good standard tbh , not as good as Amit do it but its really good content in my opinion . Im going throw it now and i find it helpful .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZgt8a7a-k

Ill try and look elsewhere too but its really hard to find a good tutorial on yt tbh. After this tutorial on yt, i do understand how things work. But i recommend go throw crystal ball and space cat first anyways . As this will be quite new thing too but easier to understand because its easier than what Amit does so you may get a hand on it easily and learn more about Obj-C. I would also recommend to watch crystal ball and space cat twice as this will give you even more of understanding of how this work.

So i hope , and as other think too i guess, this could be changed into better Objective-C tutorial . There were like two more post about this but i can't find them now because i don't know where they are.

I am going over the udemy course of build 14 apps in iOS 7, to try and get the basics down. So far so good.

Thanks to the guy who write this post! treehouse just sucks!!!

Agreed, theres no way we can learn from this at all, at least at my programming level

i recommend this videos to learn the real BASICS OF OBJECTIVE-C, this is a really fun guy to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL640F44F1C97BA581 , it works for me, i hope it works for anyone of you guys.

It doesn't look like this video is ever going to be updated to address the issues discussed here. I'm having the same problems that others have voiced. He had me right up until 5min into this video when he stopped explaining anything he was doing. The keyboard shortcuts, the copy and paste all in silence does nothing for us the learners.

I would think that having a few helpful notes put in as comments would really help people follow along and learn to identify what's what.