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Hey, Im currently learning Cocoa. through this book. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS third Edition. and its a great place to start learning how to use Xcode and such… if you dont have any programming experiance then the author reccomends you start with C by picking up the book C Programming by king. I might also pick this book up to refresh my C knowledge

Thanks for all your answers. I'll start with that book. I've also seen that on Amazon a lot of iPhone programming books are coming in autumn.

Anyway I'll always check this blog and forum. It's wonderful.

Regards.

Gianluca

ecstaticax said:

Hi,

I wanted to give my best thanks to the blog author. It's the best place to learn something about iPhone developing. Being a newbie in programming skill, I found some difficulties in understanding the Apple develop docs. Here, instead, everything seems to be clearer.

I'd like to develop for iPhone. I have many ideas, and the only problem is that I don't know XCode nor C++, but I can learn quite easily.

Could you suggest me any book where I could learn the basics to write some Xcode software?

Thanks in advance. Your posts are precious for me.

Gianluca

I agree thank you for all of your help with learning xcode and Obj-C.

I found this “Introduction to  Cocoa Application Tutorial”:

to be enormously helpful. It's a step by step guide to creating a small application using xCode. It's a currency converter program for the MAC – it's not an iphone tutorial, but all the princicples are the same.

I wish there was something like this from Apple for the iPhone.  It essentially describes the MVC (Model,View, Controller) framework that is assumed in all xCode development (including for the iPhone) and it sews it altogether.  While the icodeblog tutorials are GREAT!, Brandom assumes a certain knowledge of the MVC development approach that I didn't understand.  After doing the tutorial above (twice) and creating that app twice, it was much easier for me to follow along with what Brandon is doing – though I must confess, I still get lost a bit with Brandon's examples.

I come from the world of non-object-oriented C, so there's a huge learning curve for me. Cocao, xCode, Objective-C and even how to use a damn MAC – I bought my first Mac just to develop an iPhone App. There's a whole lot more to learn then I ever expected.  But its been fun so far.  Wish there was a way to develop iPhone apps on a PC with pure C – that would have been MUCH easier for me.

…Dale