First off, I'm new here. My name is Justin. I'm 23 going to grad school at the University of Wisconsin for a masters in accounting. I have a few ideas for apps that my roommate and I would like to design, but we really have no experience in the field.
I see that the subject book has a lot of great reviews, but some of them seem to indicate it's not a good book for a total beginner. I personally have very little experience with programming, just a class I took in high school years ago that I remember nothing from.
Would this still be a good book for me? Or would I be better off starting with something else? Any help is much appreciated!
well if you pick up coding easily I would just suggest googling things you want to do and going from there. This is what I did. (since ur an accountant i assume you have a mathematical mind which seems to be perfect for learning coding languages)
But most people don't pick up languages nearly as fast as I do. You might like the videos at mycodeteacher. For me I don't like them because I don't get information from the nearly as fast as I would like. They have a few free videos so you can see if you like them. They also have a very good support system where if your having a problem with one of the videos you can ask a developer in live chat.
One book that you might want to start off with is Programming in Objective C - 2.0. You can basically skim through the book, learning all the real basics, and not getting too stuck into it.
You can then look up some tutorials on the internet on how to use the SDK. There are teenagers (simpleSDK, HDIphone, iPhoneSDKTutor) that do tutorials on youtube which can be helpful, even though they're real basic. mycodeteacher is also a good place to look into, as well as 71squared. Even this forum is a good place to learn.
Obj-C is very easy to pick up, and you can get stuck into it in no time.
If you truly know nothing, it's not a good book to start with. It's not written for a total beginner.
See the resources link in my signature, as it contains a couple other books that you might want to start with.
Edit: Aw man, didn't mean to help a Badger.
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Thanks a lot Brian. Those books look like what I should probably start with.
Sorry about the upset, the Badgers are just incredible at home. We beat #5 Duke at home a couple weeks ago while we were unranked.
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Originally Posted by simpsonaty
One book that you might want to start off with is Programming in Objective C - 2.0. You can basically skim through the book, learning all the real basics, and not getting too stuck into it.
You can then look up some tutorials on the internet on how to use the SDK. There are teenagers (simpleSDK, HDIphone, iPhoneSDKTutor) that do tutorials on youtube which can be helpful, even though they're real basic. mycodeteacher is also a good place to look into, as well as 71squared. Even this forum is a good place to learn.
Obj-C is very easy to pick up, and you can get stuck into it in no time.
Is it worth paying for mycodeteacher to get access to the iPhone SDK package?
Is it worth paying for mycodeteacher to get access to the iPhone SDK package?
yes, i red part of objective-c 2.0 and i can confirm is a "entry-level" book about developing (infact i skipped it and passed to "Beginning iPhone 3 Development", that is a great book to start iphone developing)
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