My first taste of Objective-C has been an enjoyable one. At first glance, Objective-C looked like it was going to be more difficult and a big learning curve. But, as it turns out, once I understand the differences in syntax, it’s really not much different from c++ – at least so far.

I now understand that I can send ‘messages’ to classes and to objects by placing square brackets ([]) around the message. These message trigger methods on the class or object. The method can be passed parameters (or arguments) and can return values, objects, or pointers.

I like the fact that Objective-C includes the selector or method name in the message so that it’s easier to see what the values I’m passing to the method are used for. I think it makes it clearer as to what the method does and what I need to pass to the method.

Now that I’ve got a fairly good understanding of Xcode and Objective-C syntax, I’m ready to move on to my next project!