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Episode 7 Objective-C

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Wii U http://e3.nintendo.com/hw/#/introduction

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How/Why we got into programming
Upon listener request, we talk about how we got started programming and why we will love it today.

Tool of the Biweek
Jason: JavE: http://www.jave.de/
Patrick: Ascii Flow Diagram http://www.asciiflow.com/

Programming Language Discussion 
History of Objective-C

Uses
iOS/ Mac OSX Cocoa

Strengths
-Dynamically & Statically typed
-Property Directives
-Object Oriented
-Smooth interface to C/C++

Weaknesses
-Low user base (especially outside of iOS/OSX dev)
-Verbose and complicated syntax (dot syntax)

Asynchronous Programming
Writing & Understanding Event-Driven Code