[SOUND] Hi, my name is Gabe.

I'm an iOS developer.

Today's a big day.

Are you excited?

Together, we're gonna start from the very basics, and work towards understanding and

proficiency in the Objective C language.

Which is used for buildings apps for iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple TVs, and

Apple watches.

If you've done some coding before, certain things we'll talk about will be familiar.

They're probably still somewhat new to you.

If you've never coded at all, don't worry.

We'll be sure to explain things as we go, give you plenty of opportunities for

practice, as well as lots of other resources to look

to when you want deeper knowledge or alternate perspectives.

Treehouse prides itself on giving you lots of hands-on experience.

In fact, getting your hands dirty is probably the only way anyone could

ever learn to code.

So throughout this course, at the end of most of the videos,

you'll have code challenges to complete or questions to answer.

They are essential to making progress, so give them your full attention.

Not only will they reinforce what what you've learned, but

they may highlight things you didn't quite absorbed the first time around.

If that happens, it might be wise to re-watch the relevent videos or

poke around some of the materials I'll be linking to in the Teacher's Notes.

Most students won't grasp 100% of the concepts and details at first.

I know I didn't.

So don't let that bother you.

That said, if you get the feeling a second viewing of a video or

part of a video will help, then you're probably right.

For a more personal touch, I'd also suggest visiting the treehouse community

or speaking with an experienced programmer if you know one.

Before we get into the details and the hands-on portions of the course,

let's spend a few minutes talking about learning to code in general.

As you might suspect, it's different than learning other skills.

But don't be tricked into thinking it's impossibly difficult or

only achievable by techies or people with heavy math/science backgrounds.

All sorts of people from every walk of life have worked their way towards careers

in development and you can too, if you give it the proper time and attention.

While learning to code isn't harder than learning lots of other things,

it can be a bit confusing at first.

This is for a few reasons.

For one people often don't have an intuitive sense of what coding is and

how the code we write connects to the software we see.

I personally think that for the average person learning to play a musical

instrument is more difficult than learning to code.

But it's far less confusing.

Everyone has seen and heard pianos and guitars more times than they can count.

They may not be able to tell you anything about what a major scale is, but

they know when someone sings Do Re Mi correctly and when they don't.

That doesn't necessarily make it easy to learn to play an instrument.

But even right at the beginning, you have a great deal of context for

what you're trying to learn.

It's easier since you can make so-called learning connections

between the things you already know and the new things you're trying to learn.

If I showed you some code right now it would probably look like nonsense.

This doesn't mean it's harder to learn than playing an instrument.

In fact, I think for most people it's considerably easier but it can be more

confusing, especially at the beginning when you have very little context.

Okay, now that I've scared you into thinking you'll be hopelessly lost, it's

time to create some mental landmarks to help you navigate the way, and know that

you're still on the right track, even when you aren't exactly sure where you are.

Continue along to the next video, and we'll do just that.