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25 Apr 2012, 1:17 pm

Hey!
Ok, let me start off by saying that I am pretty crappy at mathematics. But, I am currently doing game development.... So this isnt good. I need to get better. Does any one know of any good examples of mathematics and algorithms under Objective C?
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25 Apr 2012, 2:40 pm

Objective C is a superset of standard C, isn't it? So you'd have any of the maths functions available to C generally - and probably many more tied to iOS.
But since none of them is particularly difficult to use, surely any book or site on learning maths and/or describing algorithms would be good?


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25 Apr 2012, 8:03 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Objective C is a superset of standard C, isn't it? So you'd have any of the maths functions available to C generally - and probably many more tied to iOS.
But since none of them is particularly difficult to use, surely any book or site on learning maths and/or describing algorithms would be good?

Yeah, I suppose so, just thought there might be some tutorials that outshine everything else or something
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03 May 2012, 12:59 am

As a general rule, don't use Objective C unless you absolutely have to, i.e. you are writing a platform specific layer in a project for OSX or iOS. It's a terrible language.

Use C++ if you're comfortable managing things at a lower level, or use Java or an interpreted language if you're not.



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03 May 2012, 1:02 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
It's a terrible language.

I don't know it well enough to argue whether or not it is a terrible language, but the syntax is horrid.



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03 May 2012, 1:35 pm

Burzum wrote:
MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
It's a terrible language.

I don't know it well enough to argue whether or not it is a terrible language, but the syntax is horrid.


The syntax is my biggest gripe, followed by runtime resolution of methods, which precludes you from finding a lot of issues at build time.