Recently I took on the enormous task of learning Objective-C from the bottom up and I was struck by something I couldn’t shake: this is too hard. An experienced developer might scoff at me for saying that, but it’s true. I’ll be honest about my education, Calculus II was the most math I ever took, I have an advanced degree from Berkeley in Journalism. I am a proficient HTML/CSS developer and can glue enough javascript together to solve almost any problem that has presented itself. My first encounter with C was at a community college when I was 13, and found the syntax so repetitive and purposefully obscure that I hid from it for years.
Now, many years later trying to restart, you might accuse me of not trying hard enough, but that simply isn’t true – I’ll continue plugging away at Objective-C until I’m functionally competent. However, I can’t but help that C is a syntax which refuses scalable learning and hides behind overly complex system.