On 07.23.09, In Geek Reads, Hacks, Mods & DIY
Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? If so, then Beginning iPhone Development is just the book for you. Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Beginning iPhone Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone and iPod Touch programming. The book starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and installing Apple’s free iPhone SDK, then stepping you though the creation of your first simple iPhone application. You’ll move on from there, mastering all the iPhone interface elements that you’ve come to know and love, (more…)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The good and the bad
I am at chapter 5, and I am loving this book. First off, I am not a programmer. I have bought may programing books trying to learn, but I am an artist, so this stuff does not come…
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Awesome book but wait for 3.0 edition
Great book, but next edition covers SDK 3.0 and includes corrections. The eBook is already out, the paperback is coming early July 2009.
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Excellent introduction, gets you up to speed quickly.
I picked up this book after learning certain areas of the iPhone SDK from reading the documentation and working on an iPhone project for some time.
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Great book for getting started
This is a great book for getting started with iPhone development. (NOTE: If you don’t already know Objective-C programming you should first read through a different book.
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Best book to learn iPhone development
I have all the books on iPhone development plus every bit of video, documentation and sample code, and out of all that I can tell you that if you want to follow a “path of least…
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Good for a non-Apple person
So far, I’ve found this book to be just the ticket in understanding how to program for the iPhone. I’ve got plenty of development experience in a variety of languages (primarily…
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Excellent introduction – little need for extensive Obj C experience
While it is obviously useful to know C and Objective C fairly well to program in Apples SDK, I dived into this one hoping that I’d “pick it up as I went along” with minimal…
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Too many details, lack of high level explanations
Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
This book drives you through the development process step-by-step, starting from the “hello world”.
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Great Intro to Development
If you’ve never developed for a Mac before and want a good primer to getting to know your iPod/iPhone, this would be a good book for you.
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The best
Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK is the best book on beginning iPhone programming I have read so far, and I did read a few.