Beginner At Coding.

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I recently started taking an online Objective -C course. Check out xcelme.com.

 

Start with one, no need to get a stack of books right away that will just deter your motivation. Get one good one and follow that one to the letter and then get another that covers what ever you want to look at in more detail.

 

I started learning with Visual Basic, which was a huge mistake. The best way to learn is to pick a popular and well established language such as Java, C++, or Apple's case, Objective-C. Once you choose a language, either pick up some books or take some classes (whichever is easier for you to follow).

Eventually you'll ween off of books and rely on the language's documentation for more information. Additionally, if you learn on C or C++ first, a whole lot of that knowledge can be used in Objective-C.

 

How are you liking these courses? Thinking about signing up for them as well.

 

There's a good course on iTunes U from Stanford. Check it out.

The teachers are programmers from Apple so you can't go wrong there and it's free.

 

also check out the stanford youtube videos for iphone development. They are wicked!

 

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The FREE series available from iTunesU is VERY well done. It does assume a fair amount of knowledge of object oriented (OO) programming though... so if OO is new to you then you may want to start elsewhere.

I was impressed with the class and, more importantly, thankful to Stanford for making it available for free on itunes. It's really well done, IMO.

 

That's brilliant. I'm with Vizin about teaching yourself from books and online tutorials, but also having a dad with 30 years programming experience to learn with and ask questions when you get stuck — that's invaluable.

A course name would be helpful… I can see 'Developing Apps for iOS' by Paul Hegarty, and 'iPhone Application Development' by Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer. Is it either of those?