Learn Objective-C Mac/iOS Tut: 1 (For Beginner Programmers)

An introductory tutorial for beginning programmers to Mac/iOS Software development. These segment of video tutorials are for those interested in learning Objective-C for iOS and Mac OS X.
These tutorials cover the foundation of the language for the beginner and then later they evolve into advanced topics.

There is also an advanced series for Objective-C that will teach the language at a quicker pace for those that already have experience programming. Example: Beginner Tutorials are generally an hour long; while the advanced tutorials are about 25 minutes long.

[devinmcelheran]

The reason that you have to subtract 1 from the maximum/2 is because you're including 0. So when you do the range from -(65536/2) + 65536, you're allocation a bit configuration for the number 0, that means one less bit configuration for non-zero numbers.

[IoannisKazlaris]

16:28 the reason why it goes up to 65535 and not 65536 is because the highest number that can be stored is 2^n - 1, and in this case n = 16. You need however a bit for the sign.

[SoftwareElitest]

You do not need programming experience for the beginner tutorials. Although the beginner tutorials may seem complicated at first, if you follow along I'll make things clearer as we progress. Also feel free to message or comment with your questions.

[Diprotic]

I am a beginner & this was a perfect speed for me.

I've never seen objective-C or C before, just LSL & I gotta say, even tho this video is old & probably out dated, I was speaking the code ahead of time before you did based on what you had previously said. Thanks man. I'll contribute trying to teach myself objective-C with online tutorials, I just hope I can find some up to date ones.

[SoftwareElitest]

Thanks for the compliment. To answer your question, I am running a 15" Retina Macbook Pro.

[MajLagSpike]

At 17:45, this is good stuff!! Pausing for a small break. And of course Subbed!

[teistix]

The reason that you can't go up to 65536 in short is because computers count from 0. This means that short can hold 65536 values including 0 ( i.e. 0 through 65535 = 65536 values). It's the same as saying that one bit can hold two values (0 and 1), but not 2 (1 and 2).

[andrequintino]

Of course, the video is very good. I hope you can continue with some other great tutorials.

[avialbert]

this video helped me so much, i really like programming!! i knew just a couple things before i started but now i know so much more!! thank you so much!

[azadkaya]

I love this tutorial so much, thank you so much. I really appreciate your work. I stopped af 27:30, because my brain needed a break to handle all the information, so I will continue the video by tomorrow! 

[AdnanAbbasi_LXXVIII]

Hi Jared, I just wanted to say what a great tutorial, I really liked it and it helped me quite a bit, I am thinking that this might become my favorite language to code in as well. Keep up the great work and please post more videos :-)

[exezamar]

That was a great tutorial man, keep it up!

[kltio]

Hi Jared!

Great stuff, are you working on a second tutorial? When do you think it will be upploaded?

Thanks again :)

[ldfashined]

Jared man... You got me from the first 10 minutes! I'll gladly pay for more of these! Would you recommend The Big Nerd Ranch books for a beginner. I'm coming from UI / UX design background and learning OOP is manifesting to be a really discouraging process so far! Thank you for your efforts, time and knowledge! Top notch stuff!

[ElieElKhoury]

Thanks A LOT man! I'm fairly new to programming and just got an objective c book and got kind of confused. Thanks to your video I understand perfectly now! You have no idea how much you helped me! Liked and subscribed of course :D

[tklplant]

whens the next video cant wait these are the best tutorials I have seen

[SoftwareElitest]

I don't think Dodoman thought it was an insult. More or less he/she just didn't appreciate the impersonation of Obama.
Anyhow, personally I take being called Eric Snowden a complement. I really admire what he did.

[csumpa]

Very good tutorial! Kerp up the good work!

[ethanleeyijie]

Thank you for helping me learn Objective -C better !! :D

[DorianMattar]

I think it would be useful to turn the side by side view every so often, specially at the end, so that the viewer can see the connections between the .h and .m as you build the tutorial. It's difficult to remember what's in all the different objects.