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Paul Dunahoo
5,390 PointsPost-pone Objective-C Basics?
This is a followup post to my last post, which talked about how the Objective-C Basics deep dive seemed more boring and more complex than it should.
In followup, I am wondering if it would be a good idea to delay it until later. It is currently the first course on the iOS Development track, but it used to start with the Build A Simple iPhone App course. The updated course I would expect to retain the simplicity of its iOS 6 predecessor, so is it alright if I skip ahead for now? Or will it build off the deep dive?
2 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 PointsI would just power through the deep dive. It will make things much easier to understand when doing the projects.
However, it is definitely doable to skip the deep dive and just do the project, but it will not be as easy.
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherWe actually debated this internally. :) We ended up putting the deep dive first because it really does set you up with the foundational knowledge of the language that you need for iOS app development. But you can definitely go with your own route and loop back to the deep dive. However, there are some concepts in Build a Simple iPhone App that aren't explained in total detail because they are covered in Objective-C basics. But if you make notes of things you don't understand you can review them in the deep dive. Good luck either way!