{"id":7932,"date":"2014-06-05T05:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2014-06-05T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:02:34","slug":"objective-c-player-and-game-oop-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/objective-c-player-and-game-oop-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Objective-C Player and Game OOP Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Objective-C<\/a>

Objective-C Player and Game OOP Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

There is change in the wind<\/a>. And they call the wind Mariah<\/a>. Do you see how those butterflies in Brazil have been flapping faster?<\/p>\n

Let me explain. With Apple iOS 8 there could be big changes to programming arrangements, and it could be that you need to study Swift (is a Google search<\/a> in order?). But we are still in the here and now, and today’s tutorial is about Objective C, the current iOS language of choice.<\/p>\n

Today we just do some simpler OOP work and create two pared down classes called Player and Game. In the main function of our Xcode Objective-C OS-X Foundation project’s main.m<\/a> source code, we create two Player objects (an object is the instantiation of a class), and this has to be done, for our arrangements, if you expect to be able to play a Game … though some people say “Solitaire’s the only game in town …” the more verbose (amongst us) go …<\/p>\n

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There was a man
\nA lonely man
\nWho lost his love
\nThrough his indifference<\/p>\n

A heart that cared
\nThat went unshared
\nUntil it died
\nWithin his silence<\/p>\n

And solitaire’s the only game in town
\nAnd every road that takes him, takes him down
\nAnd by himself it’s easy to pretend
\nHe’ll never love again<\/p>\n

And keeping to himself he plays the game
\nWithout her love it always ends the same
\nWhile life goes on around him everywhere
\nHe’s playing solitaire<\/p>\n

A little hope
\nGoes up in smoke
\nJust how it kills
\nGoes without saying<\/p>\n

There was a man
\nA lonely man
\nWho would command
\nThe hand he’s playing<\/p>\n

And solitaire’s the only game in town
\nAnd every road that takes him, takes him down
\nAnd by himself it’s easy to pretend
\nHe’ll never love again<\/p>\n

And keeping to himself he plays the game
\nWithout her love it always ends the same
\nWhile life goes on around him everywhere
\nHe’s playing solitaire<\/p>\n

And solitaire’s the only game in town
\nAnd every road that takes him, takes him down
\nWhile life goes on around him everywhere
\nHe’s playing solitaire<\/p>\n

<\/font>Thanks a lot.<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see no matter what the future brings mobile iOS wise, desktop applications in Objective-C can be used to perform that software functionality you need … how ARE you going with that unobtrusive percolator as you swing out of bed “timed to perfection” idea you started 7 years ago?<\/p>\n

Hope you get something out of today’s tutorial<\/a>. We give thanks to Objective-C<\/i> by Steven Holzner for the gist of the coding ideas presented today.<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n