Great Price "Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours" for $19.99 Today
This book is well balanced between drive and explanation, as (almost) all other books on the subject you have to know (some) programming thinking already. To a total newbie the book would be useless and that is why I think the title is a bit stupid. It's not a matter of learning the process from one day to the other but if you read the book carefully and use 24 separate 1 hour sessions, you should end a lot wiser.
It will learn you how to program the iPhone yes, will it teach you the nuts and bolts of iPhone programming, no!
My recommandation is that this book is great for looking up stuff, but to get complete knowing of the iPhone and application development you need more than this.
Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours Features
- ISBN13: 9780672330841
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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&>A clear, easy-to-understand tutorial for developers who want to write software for today's hottest market: iPhone, iTouch, and App Store!
iPhone is the world's hottest application market: more than 500,000 developers have downloaded Apple's iPhone software development kit in just one year. Now there's a friendly, accessible guide to iPhone development for every programmer, regardless of experience. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours will help beginning iPhone and mobile developers gain true mastery, so you can construct virtually any iPhone application. Each lesson builds on everything that's come before, helping you learn all they need to know without ever becoming overwhelmed. Coverage includes: preparing for iPhone development; navigating the development environment; mastering Objective-C and the MVC paradigm; using widgets and webviews; implementing multiple views; reading and writing data; building user interfaces; generating graphics; playing media; using maps; networking; using the touch interface; sensing motion; pushing application updates; debugging; optimization; distributing software via the App Store; and more. By the time you are finished you'll be comfortable enough to write real-world apps that sell.
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Customer Review
More time debugging their code than reading the book... - Michael McGrath -
As others have commented, the first twelve-to-fourteen chapters are excellent. They did an good job teaching the basics with very understandable examples. However, right around the fourteenth chapter everything falls apart. They start feeding you code without a lot of detailed explanation. Many of the example projects are just flat out broken because of the typos and lack of direction. I am amazed that they didn't take time to quality check their book before publishing it. Very, very sloppy.
With that said, if you do pick up this book make sure you also download the example code from their website because it will be VITAL in order to compare their broken mess that they had you type in to something that actually works. You might want to skip typing in their code altogether and just follow along with the downloaded examples. You also just might want to skip this book entirely and find something written with a little more care.
Download the errata FIRST! - Donovan Reeve -
I have been able to get all of the examples through the first 14 chapters to work. I have at least a dozen iPhone books and think comparatively this is the best or second best starter book (O'Reilly's Head First is good too). Most chapters do take more than an hour(Of course I'm learning Objective-C at the same time). I also like the fact that this is the first book to show you how to get examples on to your own iPod Touch from the beginning of the book instead of telling you to just use the X-Code simulator. but (and this is a big but) DOWNLOAD THE ERRATA from the Sams website first. It will save you a lot of frustration.
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