I took a course on iOS dev with Ray Wenderlich (mentioned there for his Cocos2d tutorials), and highly recommend his work.
link?
My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
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Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#32I took a course on iOS dev with Ray Wenderlich (mentioned there for his Cocos2d tutorials), and highly recommend his work.
link?
it's in the OP. But also http://ray.wenderlich.com
Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't there a huge memory leak? Creating a new pointer on each iteration without keeping track of them. I might be wrong I've been doing games in CL for some time now.
With a few exceptions, pointers returned by methods in Objective-C are assumed to be autoreleased. That means their reference count will be decremented at the end of the event loop. But if OP is expecting a lifetime of learning, he might want to push a new autorelease pool for each iteration.
Or just release it. If you're sure it's autoreleased then retain/release it. If you're not sure, just set it to autorelease before you retain/release it.
Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a few exceptions, pointers returned by methods in Objective-C are assumed to be autoreleased. That means their reference count will be decremented at the end of the event loop. But if OP is expecting a lifetime of learning, he might want to push a new autorelease pool for each iteration.
Or just release it. If you're sure it's autoreleased then retain/release it. If you're not sure, just set it to autorelease before you retain/release it.
retain/release on an autoreleased object won't make it get destroyed any faster. You still have to wait for the event loop to cycle (or push/pop your own autorelease pool).
Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#35Welcome wblackall to HN. Inspiring journey. I hope you keep up with it and go far with your efforts.
Inspires me to look at all the things that we coders are not familiar with and approach it with the same enthusiasm as you do.
Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#36After 15 years in the corporate world I've almost forgotten those exciting early days of programming. This article brought back the joy I felt when I figured out how to make the bad guy "home in" on the good guy - that was a turning point for me!
I need to do some true recreational programming again - just for the pure joy of it.
Re: My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or just release it. If you're sure it's autoreleased then retain/release it. If you're not sure, just set it to autorelease before you retain/release it.
retain/release on an autoreleased object won't make it get destroyed any faster. You still have to wait for the event loop to cycle (or push/pop your own autorelease pool).
That's correct. That's something I read, have repeated but never bothered to actually test.