NSConference
I’ve recently taken some actual concrete steps to learn the iPhone SDK and Objective-C. So far it’s been very enjoyable, with only a couple of WTF moments.
The biggest change from using Visual Studio and .NET has been that the visual tools actually seem to work without screwing with your work. I’m not pushing it very hard yet, so that will probably change. I’m still nervous that I don’t understand the underlying serialization format.
I’ve been using Bill Dudney’s Screenscasts on starting iPhone development, and his forthcoming iPhone development book, both from the Pragmatic Programmers, which have both been excellent. As a result I’ve got the basics of an iPhone app that I think could turn into something that people might actually want to install on their phones. There’s a lot of work to be done before I get to that stage, though.
In an attempt to give myself a hard deadline for learning, I also signed up for NSConference, a Mac developers conference to be held in April, organised by Scotty from the Mac Developer Network. If you’re at all interested in iPhone or Mac development it looks like the place to be. Hopefully I’ll see you there.
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For learning Cocoa, I could not recommend more highly Aaron Hillegass’ book ‘Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X’. There is some in there that is not relevant to iPhone, and unfortunately, some of Cocoa’s more amazing features are not available on iPhone (Bindings, Core data), but the book is extremely good to for getting to grips with Cocoa regardless.
PS, I did work experience at Intereresource, shortly before it folded.