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iOS Build a Game with Sprite Kit Intro to Sprite Kit Introduction

Vidit Shah
Vidit Shah
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Vidit Shah
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Instead of Objective C?

Instead of having knowledge of Objective C in This course I m pretty Familiar With C++. Will it Be fine To start Taking this Course of 2-D Game Development ? Just asking for time consumption..

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I think that C++ and Obj-C , have one in common which is C. So you would need to learn the extention of C to get into Obj-C.

Look im not any expert nor i know any of these apart from doing basics and little research time ago, but thats what i know, hope it helps.

You could try and see if you get it.

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Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
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Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
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Objective C and C++ are not very similiar. The only similarity is that both languages are compiled, object oriented languages derived from C. The syntax and methods are very different.

In my opinion Objective C is more similiar to JAVA and Smalltalk.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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When i read and heared, they say if you know C, or any of these, your like already in the way to learn other extention in few weeks or so.

So what i remember, is that when you know C, its going to be easier to learn any of the others, because all of the others are extentions. Like C didnt had objects, so they put Obj-C which has still the rules of C or whatever, but now has more stuff and is twikled a bit.

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
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Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
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I know C, C# and C++, I had taken a brief look at Objective-C a while back to build an iOS version of an android app my company had deployed to the android market... The syntax was very different to any other subset of C we had experienced before, we ended up using Objective-C++ as that was also supported by the iOS market.

Knowing C does make it easier, but the question was C++ and Objective-C which I would say are very different apart from memory management and being object orientated.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
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Aaa okay, not it makes even more sense. Thank you :)