AKMA's Random Thoughts

October 30, 2003

That Time of Year

It seems as though that Halloween picture I posted a year ago is getting a lot of traffic. It's pretty sweet; I just have to laugh every time I look at it and think about Nate and Si, and even their friends Brad and Cally.

Now that some of you have had a look at the flesh-and-blood Josiah, or even his most recent photographic manifestation, you may enjoy the past version all the more.

Posted by AKMA at October 30, 2003 01:07 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Trying to link with Hallowe'en pic takes me to May 17th, 2002! Good to know links can be creative all on their own. Love, NTA

Posted by: NTA at October 31, 2003 06:22 AM

That gives us a pretty good starting point to understand a lot more about variables, and that's what we'll be examining next lesson. Those new variable types I promised last lesson will finally make an appearance, and we'll examine a few concepts that we'll use to organize our data into more meaningful structures, a sort of precursor to the objects that Cocoa works with. And we'll delve a little bit more into the fun things we can do by looking at those ever-present bits in a few new ways.

Posted by: Arthur at January 12, 2004 07:21 PM

This will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of

Posted by: Lambert at January 12, 2004 07:23 PM

Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.

Posted by: Alexander at January 12, 2004 07:24 PM

The Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.

Posted by: Anne at January 13, 2004 09:35 AM

Note the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.

Posted by: Phillipa at January 13, 2004 09:36 AM

This code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?

Posted by: Joshua at January 13, 2004 09:36 AM