The Stanford course is great, but the level of assumed knowledge is pretty high, arguably too high for someone with no OOP experience. The conceptual complexity of the lessons ramps up very quickly.
Personally I disagree with this. Much of learning iOS development (or any other platform really) is learning how to use the frameworks/APIs. You should start to pick up Objective C as you do this.
Much of learning iOS is the frameworks, it's true. But you need to understand the language and it's design patterns before the frameworks will make much sense.
should issue registered developers with a little badge, like the ones Microsoft used to give out for MCP etc, it could be a yin-yang affair with one little dude banging his head on the keyboard, while the other is reading a book sitting in zen.
+1 for big nerd ranch. their iOS book will recommend the Objective-C programming book for complete beginners. Good book and help forums. I did go over to the learning C the hard way, which then directed me to learning python the hard way. Very good instruction with those lessons as well.Welcome to my island!
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Anyway back to your question, I would recommend the Big Nerd Ranch books. They explain the concepts well and include "for the curious" additional sections at the end of each chapter.
This forum holds a wealth of knowledge with some very experienced programmers willing to help but be prepared to show your workings out.
Enjoy!
+2 for the big nerd ranch books for beginners.
Or put another way an experience developer can work through it very quickly. It's not a particularly thick or detailed book.
I agree with this. I'm actually on chapter 17 of the Objective-C book. Very good book. It teaches you some basic C stuff at the start and then moves over to objective-c around chapter 12.
Programming in Objective-C (5th Edition) (Developer's Library) [Paperback]
Stephen G. Kochan
Can find on amazon for about $30 or on safari books (I ran through the digital copy on there)
Gave me a good base and the rest is history!
I had messed with vb6 as a kid and java 1 in college so I knew the logic of programming but c in general was new to me. The first 10 or so chapters were not bad 11 and on were a little hard. I think I ended up doing the first 10 chapters about 3-4 times and the whole book twice. I'm still not the best programmer but having that base helps.
