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iOS

Colin Smith
Colin Smith
3,907 Points
Posted by Colin Smith
Colin Smith
3,907 Points

Objective-C Track

Was the course track for Objective-C taken down? I was just getting started with it and pretty excited. iOS is my main focus and a grasp of Objective-C is very important for me. I'm pretty bummed as a subscriber that this would potentially happen. Anybody have good news?

Michael Cook
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Michael Cook
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Hey Colin. iOS is not my area of programming, but from what I have picked up just through reading random tech articles is that Objective-C has basically been replaced by Swift, and if you want to become an iOS developer learning Objective-C is not the best use of your time and energies. That's about all I can say. I recommend reading up on it yourself. But I would also say that your time studying Objective-C wasn't a complete waste. Regardless of the language you're studying, you're developing problem-solving skills and when it comes to programming, problem-solving is the most important skill.

Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points
Bruce Röttgers
Bruce Röttgers
18,211 Points

Michael Cook I have learned and am learning iOS and heavily disagree. Starting out I would recommend as well first learning Swift, though there's still a gigantic codebase written in Objective-C and it still is supported. There are a lot of jobs that want experience with Obj-C as well. So it is a language that everyone interested in iOS Dev needs to learn at some time in their career.

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Robert Conti
Robert Conti
23,274 Points
Robert Conti
Robert Conti
23,274 Points

Hey Colin,

The Objective-C track looks like it has been taken down, but there are still individual courses you can take. Once I am done with Swift, I plan on taking these courses to get more familiar with Objective-C as well. Here's the order I was going to do them in:

  • Objective-C Basics
  • Object-Oriented Objective-C
  • Objective-C for Swift Developers
  • Comparing Code: Swift and Objective-C
  • Build a Simple iPhone App Using Objective-C
  • Build a Playlist Browser with Objective-C
  • Displaying API Data with Collection Views in Objective-C

Hope this helps!