Background learning
Aug 01 2019 | 10:33 am
Looking for help...
This may be a familiar scenario to some of you - maybe less so in the dev forum, but you are the guys and gals who seem most likely to be able to help.
I have been using Max for 20 years, and I feel pretty comfortable with it, though I would never describe myself as a 'programmer'.
In fact I have failed to really get a grasp any 'proper' programming languages, all the way from school through various college courses, including Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Java and even Javascript.
I now find myself in semi-retirement, and trying to get an app that I've built with Max onto the App Store.
I have a ready market for it, and the app itself feels as ready as it will ever be.
However, I keep failing at the final hurdle, i.e trying to get the thing signed.
(I have followed Darwin's excellent tutorials, btw, and asked a few questions there, but I'm at an impasse now.)
What I feel is missing from my education, is the whole thing around programming & development in general. I feel I'm thrashing in the dark just copy/pasting stuff I find online into the Terminal, for example, without any idea what's gong on. Consequently, when it all goes tits-up, I don't know where to go next.
So I guess what I'm looking for is some kind of 'background knowledge' course on the whole programming thing.
My goal is pretty specific, I just want to be able to use what I do know - MaxMSP - to complete a project that I can share with other people, even if that's just other Mac users (a Windows version seems a universe away!).
However the whole Apple security thing is driving me nuts - my app works, but I can't even give it away at this point, let alone consider selling the thing.
Any help would be most gratefully appreciated.