UITableView populating help

Hi,
I am new at objective c and am trying to populate a tableview. I have an object class and a object controller class as well as my uitable. my object class has 1 property, my object controller class creates objects and puts them into a list. my ui gets this list a populates the table with the object property, or so the theory goes. i would like to expand this out to a data class where i can keep the data in a separate layer. currently my table does not fill.

here is some of my code.

any help is appreciated.

============ Object class ===============
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface Category : NSObject
{
NSString *name;
}

@property (copy, nonatomic) NSString *name;

-(void) print;

@end


#import "Category.h"

@implementation Category

@synthesize name;
-(void) setName: (NSString *) theCategory
{

name = [[NSString alloc] initWithString: theCategory];
}

-(void) print
{
NSLog(@"Category name: %-31s",[name UTF8String]);
}

@end



================ Object controller class ==================
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "Category.h"

@interface Categories : NSObject
{
NSString *categoryName;
NSMutableArray *categoryList;
NSMutableArray *testList;
}

-(id) initWithName: (NSString *) name;
-(void) addCategory: (Category *) theCategory;
-(int) enteries;
-(void) list;
-(NSMutableArray *) getList;
-(void) testList;
//-(void) dealloc;

@end



#import "Categories.h"

@implementation Categories;

- (id) initWithName: (NSString *) name
{
self = [super init];
if (self)
{
categoryName = [[NSString alloc ] initWithName: name ];
categoryList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init ];
}

return self;
}

-(void) addCategory:(Category *)theCategory
{
[categoryList addObject: theCategory];
}

-(int) enteries
{
return [categoryList count];
}

-(void) list
{
NSLog(@"======= Contents of: %@ =======", categoryName);

for (Category *theCategory in categoryList)
NSLog (@"%-20s", [theCategory.name UTF8String]);

NSLog (@"=======================================");
}

-(NSMutableArray *) getList
{
if([categoryList count] == 0)
{
[self testList ];
for (int i =0; i < [testList count]; i++)
{
Category *cat = [[Category alloc] init];
[cat setName: [testList objectAtIndex: i]];
[categoryList addObject: cat];
}

}
return categoryList;

}
-(void) testList
{
testList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[testList addObject: @"item1"];
[testList addObject: @"item2"];
[testList addObject: @"item3"];
[testList addObject: @"item4"];
[testList addObject: @"item5"];

}
@end



========================== UI screen with table view ====================
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>


@interface FirstViewController : UIViewController<UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate>
{

NSMutableArray *categoryList;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray * catList;


@end




#pragma - Tableview Methods

-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return catList.count;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
//Step 1: Check to see if cell row can be reused
UITableViewCell * cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cell"];

//Step 2: If there are no cells to reuse create a new one
if (cell == nil)
{
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle: UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"cell"];
}


//Add a detail view accessory
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton;

//Step 3: Set text

// cell.textLabel.text = ([categoryList valueForKey:@"name"]);
[self getList];

cell.textLabel.text = [categoryList valueForKey:@"name"];
// cell.textLabel.text = [categoryList objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.textLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:17];
cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

//Step 4: return index row
return cell;
}

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
CGSize size = [[catList objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]
sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:17]
constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(200,CGFLOAT_MAX)];

return size.height + 10;
}

-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

cell.backgroundColor = (indexPath.row%2)?[UIColor lightGrayColor]:[UIColor clearColor];
}