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Only one complaint from me: error messages. I realize this is probably a complicated problem, but on the other hand, can alienate beginners.

For example, on the first exercise, you're asked to write NSLog(@"Name"); When I did it, I first missed the semicolon, and got an error "expected ‘;’ after expression". Okay, fine and good, that makes sense. I added the semicolon and got "‘extern’ variable has an initializer" because I called NSLOG instead of NSLog. Even for a programmer, that's not a helpful error message...




Thanks for the examples, and I agree that error messages are super-important for beginners. We have written a bunch of code trying to "massage" error messages to be more helpful. I'll be adding these to the list, thanks!




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