Where to start with iPhone Development?

26Jan/093

Where to start with iPhone Development?

So I finally got an iPhone and decided right away that I’d like to jump in and try my hand at doing a little dev work. I’ve looked around a bit on Amazon and a few other places trying to read up on customer reviews, ratings, etc, but I wanted to see if I could reach out to anyone that might be reading my blog and get your thoughts as well. I’ve looked a little at the iPhone Dev Center and the iPhone Developer Program but I know that sometimes people know of better places to get started. Also, is it mandatory/necessary/worth it to pay to join the program?

Before anyone asks, I’ll go ahead and answer what I assume will be the first question asked: “What’s your development background, Jason?”

Well, I learned to program in Flash. I’ve been working with ActionScript for just over 10 years now and I’ve touched on a couple of other things like Java and PHP in the past. I understand both procedural and object oriented programming and I feel like I would just need to learn the syntax when it comes to Objective-C.

Thanks for your thoughts!

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Adrian Parr
January 27th, 2009 - 04:39

Hi Jason,

Here are some links you may find useful …

Stanford University have some course notes available online.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

Porting actionscript to iPhone, not magic!
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/04/actionscript-to-iphone-its-magic/

Cocoa touch for actionscript developers (basics)
http://andyj.be/blog/?p=3

Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
http://tinyurl.com/8sxhfc

Keith Peters’ Blog
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/

Good luck,

Adrian
Iain
January 27th, 2009 - 05:38

Keith Peters has been writing quite a bit about how to get started on the iPhone:

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/
Jason
January 27th, 2009 - 08:52

Awesome! Thanks guys, I’ll start digging around in those links.
I should have guessed I could go check Keith Peters’ blog. I mean he did create the current #1 free download (Falling Balls).