I read a few beginner tutorials on Objective-c and man is this language confusing. I am not new to programming either. I have been programming in C for 3 years. I also code with the GTK UI toolkit, basic ASM(NASM), AWK, and JavaScript. Yet still, for some reason, I find this language extremely confusing!

Anyone else feel the same?
How was it for you when you first started learning obj-c?
Your thoughts and insight would be greatly appreciated!

Objective C is the favoured language of Apple development, otherwise I wouldn't have gone near it. I learnt the basics watching the Standford University lectures on iTunes University. Having used C++ previously was an advantage, because knowing about object oriented programming is pretty central to doing anything in Objective C.

Some differences between Objective C and C++:

Instead of object.property or object.method(x) you say [object property] or [object method:x]

Instead of someobject = new someclass, you say someobject = [[someclass alloc] init]

Of course because Objective C is a superset of C, you can still use C code if you want to.

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that would be awesome if I could use C still. how would I go about doing this? write a c program and compile it as an obj-c program?

I wanted to make apps for my itouch because android development is to much to deal with! I have to set a million things up jusg for the environment and just to get it running I have to do a million more things. Not to mention learn Java from ground up. Which isn't a problem, but I figured since I already have 3+ years in the C programming language; I figured obj-c and apple was the way to go.

So, how would I be able to use C with apple development?

To code for an iPod touch, an iPad or iPhone you need a Mac of some description running Xcode, you need to pay $100 for a developers account to be able to put an app onto a device. Some Objective C would be needed for the user interface, but underlying code like manipulating data could be in c, but the basics of Objective C really aren't that hard, the main challenge is learning Cocoa which is Apple's framework for doing useful things on their OS.