Stanford CS193P iPhone Programming Course Assignment 1B

Question

I do not understand this assignment at all...*I'm not doing it for the class*, but I've downloaded all the materials from iTunes U and the course website. I was looking through it, and I have no idea what to do for assignment 1B.
Assignment 1B
Course website

Answer 1

Here's a basic layout of what I think the skeleton of the program would look like:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
void PrintPathInfo (); // function declaration for section 1
void PrintProcessInfo (); // function declaration for section 2
void PrintBookmarkInfo (); // function declaration for section 3
void PrintIntrospectionInfo (); // function declaration for section 4
int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
NSAutoreleasepool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
PrintPathInfo(); // function call for section 1
PrintProcessInfo(); // function call for section 2
PrintBookmarkInfo(); // function call for section 3
PrintIntrospectionInfo(); // function call for section 4
[pool release];
return 0;
void PrintPathInfo () // function definition for section 1
// code for printing "path info"
void PrintProcessInfo () // function definition for section 2
// code for printing "process info"
void PrintBookmarkInfo () // function definition for section 3
// code for printing "bookmark info"
void PrintIntrospectionInfo () // function definition for section 4
// code for printing "introspection info"
I don't know how to help you any further without actually doing the assignment myself, which I unfortunately don't have time for right now, but I may try in the future sometime, because it looks like I could benefit from it. But this skeleton code should give you an idea of what the basic program would look like, so all you really need to know now is what code to put in the four function definitions, so you just need to figure out how to print the "path info" and the "process info" and so forth. Go to page 4 on the assignment document you linked to and start with the section titled "Section 1: String as file system paths" and read through that to try to figure out what code you need to write in the first function definition (the one for PrintPathInfo()), and then do the same for the other three. That's where I would begin. If you don't understand what your being told in those sections of the assignment document, then maybe it is too advanced of an assignment and you might need to learn a little more about the language first (I'm not sure I know enough to complete it myself, but then again, I don't know much about Objective-C in the first place). But, anyways, that's what I would do if I were you. I'd copy the skeleton code above into your project (assuming you understand it) or write your own, and then start reading the assignment to figure out what goes inside the function definitions, because everything else (the function declarations and the main() function code) is already done. It's possible you may need to add arguments to some of the functions as you write them and/or change their return types, but it doesn't look like it. Anyways, hope there was something helpful here.