[iPhone SDK] Best place for starting XCode/Cocoa?

[Shamingo]

I hate being a n00b. So I'm just going to get over and say that I am completely lost when it comes to XCode/Cocoa. I also am not so keen on Objective C. Can anyone point me in the direction of maybe a book or two. Maybe some sort of website? No pointing and laughing :) Thanks.

[cosmoLV]

There is some main great links ;)

1. Developer Connection (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCTutorial/01Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html)

2. Learning Cocoa (http://www.cocoadevcentral.com)

3. XCode Cocoa Tutorial (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=336259)

4. XCode Cocoa Objective-C code snippets (http://www.borkware.com/quickies/everything-by-date)

5. XCode Development for Beginners (http://www.cocoalab.com/wiki/doku.php?id=become_an_xcoder)

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[r00t4rd3d]

Im sure given some time there will be many newbie based tutorials popping up.

[Shamingo]

Thanks for the quick listing of the links. I'll start there and if I'm still lost...I'll just force myself to figure it out!

[boobyman]

I just spent 3 months of my life learning the wrong programming language - python.

Why did I do that.


Thanks for the link boys1

[SaberSHO]

http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-2nd/dp/0321213149/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204928628&sr=8-1

^ for those of you who prefer the feel of real paper :) Seriously, probably the best intro to Cocoa and OSX programming. Its fairly easy for begginers to the Obj-C language, but it does require at least a bit of programming knowledge. wont have anything to do with iPhone programming specifically, but the concepts you learn will be the same.

[GeeZuZz]

I just spent 3 months of my life learning the wrong programming language - python.

Why did I do that.
I never programmed in Python before, but i think it's pretty similar to PHP and in that case Python is very easy to learn. That means you now know the basics in programming, and can more easily learn other programming languages.

The first programming language i was introduced to was PHP which was fairly easy to learn for a novice, and when i started learning Java/C# i quickly realised how similar it was to PHP. I think learning Java/C# would be a lot harder if i didn't know any languages first.

Now i'm about to start learning Objective-C/iphone programming, and it doesn't look too hard, since i already know the basics :)

[marring]

Yeah, tutorial is good place to start.

But is there any document to understand the OS architect? It is really important to understand before writing a real application!

Does anyone has some information?

[bezman]

when you sign up with apple dev you can download the sdk video tutorials too. There are 11 in total

[ridderdk]

when you sign up with apple dev you can download the sdk video tutorials too. There are 11 in total

Does the videos exist for download, elsewhere?

[ChronicProductions]

Does the videos exist for download, elsewhere?

Yeah, if you actually click one, it'll redirect you to a section on the iTunes Store

[ridderdk]

Yeah, if you actually click one, it'll redirect you to a section on the iTunes Store

Sorry to ask, "click one" what does that mean???????
can you be more precise??

[jashsayani]

Any opensource apps for Xcode. Just wanted to see a few code samples of iPhone aps and wanted code of animation. Wanted to make a VoIP app with Skype and other services.

[bezman]

i had started uploading the iPhone SDK Tutorial vids to youtube, but they were too big and/or too long and were rejected by youtube, i gotta resize em..

but you can register for free and sign in and download the SDK and tutorials and vids, sample apps, documentation, notes etc... its really worth it, i am a noob at all this too, but i am already quickly picking things up, making little widgets and simple apps with the SDK

my biggest problem is finding the time to do this and my 9-5 ;)

[ridderdk]

i had started uploading the iPhone SDK Tutorial vids to youtube, but they were too big and/or too long and were rejected by youtube, i gotta resize em..

but you can register for free and sign in and download the SDK and tutorials and vids, sample apps, documentation, notes etc... its really worth it, i am a noob at all this too, but i am already quickly picking things up, making little widgets and simple apps with the SDK

my biggest problem is finding the time to do this and my 9-5 ;)

Thank you bezman, that's what i needed.

[chrisc9867]

All the stuff that was mentioned above, the videos, documents, are all free. No reason to not get them legit from apple.

[Cocchiararo]

i registered and got a mail for confirmation, that said i would get a second mail that never came :P

i learnt the basics of programin in college (with pascal :P), and then ANSI C.
I hope its not too hard to learn Obj C by myself (this year i have java in another subject).

[Techjunkie]

I just spent 3 months of my life learning the wrong programming language - python.

Why did I do that.


Thanks for the link boys1

:D

Hi boobyman and all others. My first post and I must admit that me and my girlfriend had a big laugh from your post... :D My girlfiend is taking a course at Stockholm University in Sweden - some "Starter programming course" and they use Phyton and I must say it is rather obsolete. I learned (a little bit) Python almost 8 - 10 years ago I think... but went over to PHP, Perl and Java Script instead.

Now I'm a regged iPhone developer at Apple, as almost everyone here? or? :o

I've just started with XCode and it's rather fun. I've done a lot applications for PC in Developer Studio (C and C++), but I'm am also an old Unix programmer with experience of gcc on different Unix platforms (Solaris, HPUX, SGI, Linux and more).

Now I just have to learn all XCode Frameworks and Objective-C and earn my first $1.000.000 bucks! :D

[MattCairns]

Take a look at this website. There is a whole bunch of video tutorials and im loving it.

http://www.iphonedevcentral.org/