iPhone Development - Day 2 Review

So here we are with Day 2 complete. Once again, Deitel did not fail, well, almost. I had a little complication with understanding delegates. However... voila! ... I checked out this website and got a great understand by comparing the code that Deitel had to this, and the explanation that this blog provided was nothing less than understandable.

I am still taking the positive attitude that it is possible for me to be an iPhone developer! This book is providing me with much more understanding and better tutorials as to what I am doing. It is also providing great examples to build off of for later projects.

Once again, the book that I am using is iPhone for Programmers: An-App Driven Approach.

iPhone Development - Day 1 Review

Hooray!

For the first time in my iPhone Dev. adventures I have come across a helpful book. As expected Deitel provided a no assumption approach to explaining what they were doing in their tutorials. I have completed the first two apps and already see a big difference in explanations of why I am doing what I am doing in the code. I am also seeing a better lead in from simple to complex. Each chapter is laid out in a fashion that is like a meeting (i.e., agenda, goal, discussion, code explanation, conclusion). Thumbs up as of right now.

iPhone Development Start

I can't say that it was really started right now. I am re-engaging this problem. I started out trying to learn iPhone development right at the time when Apple was switching over to iOS 4, so it made it difficult to utilize source code from any book that was out at the time. None of them worked since they were for different versions of the OS. I dived into Learn Cocoa on the Mac (terrible first step), then I went to Beginning iPhone 3 Development (not bad, but could have been better), I finally came to More iPhone 3 Development (same as last one). None of these helped me understand technically why I was doing what I was doing. My background is C#, so that might have something to do with it all, but I find it as just a higher hurdle to jump then just going from C# to Java. This is also my first time of getting involved into MVC style programming, and my experience is in Domain Model. All this colliding together made for a first attempt bad experience. So here I am now renewing my vows to the iPod Touch, iPhone, and, hopefully, iPad.

My first step is trying a new book for teaching. I am going with a Deitel production, "iPhone For Developers: An App-Driven Approach". Deitel & Deitel is a well known college book author. I used the Java and C++ one in school, so hopefully this is a good first start. My first application, simple, a picture and label on the screen. That couldn't be easier.