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 16:23:21 -0500
Thanks everyone for the helpful info. Highly appreciated!
- Koen.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
> FYI, in looking for material to use, from my experience, it is also
> important to know what to avoid.
>
> Ignore anything that is older than two years and any older material that
> references any version of Xcode before 4.
>
>
> A lot of the books that I do buy, (Matt's, Erica's, Vandad Nahavandipoor's)
> serve as wonderful references even if you do not read the the entire
> book/pdf.
>
> Also, and I feel that this is critical, if you do not yet fully understand
> deployment, provisioning and the whole certificate mess, (especially if you
> plan on doing Enterprise deployment), it's really really important to get
> your head around that.
>
> Here is a list of the resources that I have tabulated/recommended for my
> team. Some of these may be too junior for you, but they are here for your
> reference.
>
> Also, previous years of the WWDC videos and PDFs from 2010, 2011 and 2012
> are often invaluable resources for reference and instruction. They are
> massive but are easily recompressed to MP4 and can take up 1/2 the file size
> and still get look great.
>
> Essential iOS Build and Release
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022282.do
>
> iOS Programming
> http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-6-by-tutorials
>
> iOS Programming
> http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-apprentice
>
> iOS Programming
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023562.do
>
> iOS 6 Programming
> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027683.do
>
> Cocoa Design Patterns
> http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Design-Patterns-Erik-Buck/dp/0321535022
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaDesignPatterns/CocoaDesignPatterns.html
> http://iphone2009.crowdvine.com/talk/presentation_file/5106/Buck_-_Cocoa_Design_Patterns.pdf
>
> Apple Reference Documentation
> https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/index.html?section=Resource+Types&topic=Getting+Started#
>
> Apple iOS Dev Videos
> https://developer.apple.com/videos/ios/
> https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Koen van der Drift 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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