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Posted by tariqasghar
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tariqasghar
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 30,519 Points

iOS development - objective c track curriculum question.

Hello,

I am currently taking iOS development track at treehouse. I want to know that topics related to threading like grand central dispatch, dispatch async, syncs blocks etc. will be covered in this track? as I usually face issues regarding threading while developing for iOS.

Tariq.

3 Answers

Pasan Premaratne
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@syedtariqasghar,

We don't cover it in an up to date course at the moment but we are addressing the issue. The honest answer is that we can't teach everything in both languages and our demand for Swift far exceeds Objective-C. So the way we're going to go about it is to teach short focused workshops that teach you these kinds of topics but not in the context of an app.

So we will produce a memory management and GCD course for Objective-C but it won't be released till early next year perhaps

tariqasghar
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Ok so you mean swift is in more demand nowadays and will eventually takeover objective-c, that's really bad from apple's side by changing the programming language after many people mastered their objective-c language. Also tutorials online are also increasing in swift, especially the iOS 9 ones which are all in Swift currently.

Pasan Premaratne
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Why is that bad from Apple's side?

tariqasghar
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by changing the programming language after many people got used to their objective-c language.

Pasan Premaratne
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Well in their defense, the language is 32 years old and it needs a replacement. Also Objective-C went from being the top 10 most popular languages used to #14 now. Swift is going to take over Objective-C by the end of November so I don't think Apple is too worried.

tariqasghar
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Yeah probably only apple could do this and get away from it.

Pasan Premaratne
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It's more common than you'd think. Microsoft introduced C# then F# soon after.

But you are right in that Apple is moving much faster with Swift than any other company.

Richard Lu
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Hi Syed,

I know that Pasan Premaratne covers Threading here.

Good luck!

tariqasghar
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Hi richard,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes he seems to be covering threading in the course you linked but its on the swift track, can't see anything similar in objective-c track.

Tariq.