Question

I’m currently learning objective-c. I have heard (and experienced) that the best way to learn is doing it yourself, trying to reach a goal. For example, trying to code a simple app and having trouble completing it, then persevering and accomplishing your goal, meanwhile learning a lot. Hopefully you know what I mean. Well it’s hard for me to come up with challenging programs/applications to code. I’m wondering if there is somewhere that someone has listed a few challenges (i.e. “try and make the program do this”) or examples like at the end of each chapter of the book, “Programming in Objective-C, 4th edition” or the book “Objective-C for Absolute Beginners”. Does anybody know of a website that has a few of these or does anybody want to help me by challenging me? (I’m a super beginner so not to challenging.) Thanks for your time and answers. 😀

Answer 1

There are some excellent non-language-specific coding challenges at Project Euler. They are mathematically focussed, so the more advanced ones may not help you learn Objective-C so much as mathematics.

The way I learned Objective-C was by porting an open-source python program (i.e. rewriting the program in Objective-C). I thought it was a particularly good way to learn because I had to constantly learn about Obj-C conventions, and many python features are not available in Obj-C, so I had to write them.