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: Koen van der Drift <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:37:25 -0500
Good advice, thanks Roland. I do have an idea and a project, so I will
just go ahead and dive in.
One thing I'm not sure about yet is the use of 'storyboards'. Apple
uses it in their tutorial, but the two books I mentioned seem to
hardly touch on it. Maybe it is too new to have been included inthose
books?
- Koen.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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