New Wannabe Developer needing some advice

[marktmcewan]

I am in year 2 at University, currently studying web deveolpment and spending most of my spare time looking over ios SDK books, articles and tutorial videos, So its fair to say this is where I see my future. I have the following question, within my studies we are looking at Object Oriented Analysis and Design [using StarUML] My question is, does anyone use this method / software for ios development - it seems a bit "stick men and speech bubbles" to me ! I know App development is wrttien in Objective-C and cocoa and was wondering just how deep the relationship between what i am learning and what i should be learning are ?

Thanks to everyone that reads and responds.

Mark

[RI_tutorials]

Hi marktmcewan

I think the answer is what you are learning will help you a lot with what you will need to learn (Objective C/Cocoa). A good understanding of Object Oriented concepts such as classes, instances, methods, delegation, design patterns, etc... will help you pick up any new languages and frameworks quicker in the future. Hopefully the aim of your university module is not "how to use StarUML" as much as learning "Object Oriented Analysis and Design by demonstrating it in StarUML".

So on a side note (and from my personal experience also) don't look at the module as not what you should be learning. Learn as much from it as you can and apply it to what you want to do. The act of taking these concepts from your uni module and applying them to application design for iOS will only be beneficial to your overall knowledge of programming and employability.

Hope you find this useful,
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