Sadly, I believe the difference between being able to write a simple iPhone app quickly (say tables, pulling data, 8 hours, knowing IB and what methods to hook) and slowly (constantly googling, checking XCode docs, StackOverflow, wondering about memory management) is simply months of experience (which will vary depending on time invested). There are ways, of course, to become better faster but I think it almost has to become mind memory (like muscle memory) where you know how to do certain things near automatically. Until then, frustration can be du jour.
My friend who has been lucky enough to get a job doing Cocoa development (without knowing Objective-C/Cocoa) has taken about six months to become proficient (and he still has trouble - and when he pair-codes with excellent Cocoa programmers - just tries to not get in the way).
I stopped a while ago but will restart - I'm still very much on that learning curve.
My friend who has been lucky enough to get a job doing Cocoa development (without knowing Objective-C/Cocoa) has taken about six months to become proficient (and he still has trouble - and when he pair-codes with excellent Cocoa programmers - just tries to not get in the way).
I stopped a while ago but will restart - I'm still very much on that learning curve.