Re: iOS books, etc for experienced OSX programmers
Re: iOS books, etc for experienced OSX programmers
- Subject: Re: iOS books, etc for experienced OSX programmers
- From: Roland King <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:16:11 +0800
With respect to Mssrs Hillegass and Dudney, if you have a good knowledge of OSX Cocoa I think you are probably going to do as well jumping in and reading what docs and sample code Apple has trying to convert your brain to iOS. My experience, going the other way, is that the iOS interface is cleaner and has less 'oh really' moments than the OSX one. I like the stuff Matt Neuburg publishes, I admit to reading that which he's made publicly available without purchasing the book (sorry Matt) and he's quite methodical about going through the framework which I think might also work quite well for someone with an already working knowledge transitioning over.
I would probably start by assuming you know most of what you need to know, jump in and have a few headscratchers and see if you think you are missing something. It's more similar than it is different and just getting your head around that little screen on the iPhone or the sligthly-too-large one on the iPad is possibly most of the difficulty. Think of a project, code it, ask questions here.
Roland
PS no bindings on iOS, I count myself lucky. Jury still out on Autolayout and no menus is somewhat of a win.
On 22 Feb, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Koen van der Drift <email@hidden> wrote:
> Having a lot of knowledge of and experience with Cocoa/ObjC/OSX I am
> looking for a good introduction to making iOS apps. Starting at
> Apple's dev website I did the BirdWatching tutorial. When searching
> for books, two jump out: the ones by Hillegass and by Dudney. However,
> based on their table of contents, both seem to require not much
> previous knowledge and therefore spent several chapters explaining the
> basics.
>
> Also found lots of tutorials, but I cannot judge the quality of those,
> and again they all seem to be for kids with hardly any programming
> knowledge.
>
> What do you guys think, shall I just go ahead and get one of those
> books, or did I miss some? I think what I am looking the most for is
> some text that focuses on differences between iOS and OSX, so that I
> am not using techniques (eg bindings) and patterns that will not work
> on iOS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Koen.
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