Introductory course to iphone development

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iphonedev/

by geeko • 17 years ago

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geeko2• 17 years ago

Besides of this course from MIT and the one at Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php), what other sources are you using to get into iphone development?

menloparkbum2• 17 years ago

I do graphics and entertainment stuff, so this has been interesting: http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/

also the Apress books about iPhone development and objective C have been the best books I've seen.

I haven't seen any other online courses I've liked other than the stanford one.

geeko2• 17 years ago

May I ask how long it roughly took you to get started and what was your prior experience with objective C?

(Thanks for the recommendation, just bought the apress iphone dev book)

xelfer2• 17 years ago

The two things that got me started were "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition)" by Aaron Hillegass: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/browse/book/isbn/97803215036... and iCodeBlog which has excellent tutorials for beginners: http://icodeblog.com/

pstinnett• 17 years ago

I was trying to follow along with the Stanford course but found myself lost early on. Do you think the Cocoa Programming book covers enough Objective C / OOP basics for a beginner?

wallflower• 17 years ago

Sadly, I believe the difference between being able to write a simple iPhone app quickly (say tables, pulling data, 8 hours, knowing IB and what methods to hook) and slowly (constantly googling, checking XCode docs, StackOverflow, wondering about memory management) is simply months of experience (which will vary depending on time invested). There are ways, of course, to become better faster but I think it almost has to become mind memory (like muscle memory) where you know how to do certain things near automatically. Until then, frustration can be du jour.

My friend who has been lucky enough to get a job doing Cocoa development (without knowing Objective-C/Cocoa) has taken about six months to become proficient (and he still has trouble - and when he pair-codes with excellent Cocoa programmers - just tries to not get in the way).

I stopped a while ago but will restart - I'm still very much on that learning curve.

jfarmer• 17 years ago

If you know C/C++ and want to get into Objective-C I recommend the "Objective-C Guide for C++ Programmers": http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/fichiers/cpp-objc-en.pdf

It goes through step by step and explains how the OO terms you know map from C++ to Objective-C, e.g., "If you want to declare a static class method, you use this syntax..." If you're familiar with OO in general it's pretty good, too.

It really lowers the Objective-C syntax hurdle, IMO.

windsurfer2• 17 years ago

Are there any iphone development tools for Linux?

mshafrir• 17 years ago

I believe that Iphone development can only be done on a Mac.

danielh• 17 years ago

There was a thread about this on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276907/starting-iphone-ap...

In summary, it is not impossible, but if you want to distribute your app through the app store, you should probably get a Mac.

windsurfer2• 17 years ago

That's pretty lame.

senthil_rajasek• 17 years ago

http://www.mobileorchard.com/ is another resource dedicated to iphone development.

Introductory course to iphone development

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