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iStruggle

Posted on October 8, 2008.

I'm trying to teach myself iPhone development. I've watched all the tutorial videos, I've read a bunch of resources, I've even looked at a lot of example code. Things just aren't coming together. I think what I'm finding most difficult to understand is the Interface Builder. What am I supposed to add there? How does it connect to my source files? I just don't get it. And to top that, Objective-C is very different from the C & Java I did in college, and the Javascript & PHP I'm doing now. I'm not sure where to go to learn this stuff…

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4 Comments

1. Cody on October 8, 2008

   I was thinking about getting into iPhone dev when i get an iPhone, but i'm thinking about waiting for Android to arrive down under in Australia

2. Ben on October 9, 2008

   Hey, at least you've started. I haven't even cracked a book on that yet.

3. Dean Strelau on October 11, 2008

   Go get a book on Cocoa. Not iPhone, but plain old OS X. I picked up Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X a bit ago and after working through just half the book, development for the iPhone suddenly made sense. I'd also recommend the Pragmatic screencasts and book.

4. Christian Montoya on October 11, 2008

   Thanks Dean, will do