Starting on iPhone Development

[DogGunn]

Hey guys,

I'm just wondering if you have any recommendations for resources on how to learn Objective-C and iPhone development in general?

I'm finding it hard to wrap my head around what seems to be a somewhat backwards language.

Are there any books, eBooks or websites that are good for starting off on?

Cheers,
Dog

[andersonmat]

Apress puts out a book called Beginning iPhone 3 Development. It was what helped me grasp everything. :v:

[Orpheusxx1]

I am actually doing iPhone development for a mentored research next semester and am teaching myself over the summer. I haven't picked up any books yet, but if you already know OOP I suggest reading over apple's documentation.

[url]http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf[/url]

Also Stanford University has free recordings of their lectures on iphone development on iTunes U. They are very helpful.

As for books, I will probably be picking up the Apress, Beginning iPhone Development 3, book this summer. Apple's developer website, forums, and tutorials are also helpful.

[DogGunn]

I'll take a look at the Stanford Uni lectures - but I'll most likely buy the Beginning iPhone 3 Development book.

I keep hearing good things about it.

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Thanks Orpheusxx1 and andersonmat!

[AtomiC4l]

OBJECTIVE C!!!!!!!!

*shakes fist*

[DogGunn]

It just seems so backwards to me! Haha

And I've had some experience with OOP.

[andersonmat]

Objective C leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's the bastard of the C family a mix of smalltalk and C. :saddowns:

[ltkerr0r]

You can get away with a lot of C++ and there's a bunch of boiler-plate Objective-C code.