Apple iPhone School » programming http://www.appleiphoneschool.com Learn how to use, hack and mod the Apple iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Sat, 25 May 2013 12:26:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Developing an iPhone Application From Scratch http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2009/04/06/developing-an-iphone-application-from-scratch/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2009/04/06/developing-an-iphone-application-from-scratch/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:41:21 +0000 Douglas http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=13393 iPhone SDKOk, so I’ve been inspired by recent news articles of people writing iPhone apps and retiring at the age of 25. I figured I might as well try it out. First I’ll give you some background on what I already know, which isn’t a ton. I started programming basic when I was between 5 and 10. Can’t remember exactly but I remember writing my little programs and saving them to a 5.25 inch floppy disk. As things moved on I went through all the versions of Windows but never really wrote anything since Basic until the internet came a long and then started doing html. I did a lot of the basic stuff, a lot of it I still use today and some I probably shouldn’t :) Recently I’ve learned some php and css thanks to WordPress. I’ve always worked with PCs until the iPhone but working with jailbreaking and some of the hacking, I’ve learned the file structure of OS X.

I was always against most programming because I hate math. I still don’t really know how much I’m going to need but either way I’m going to give programming iPhone apps a shot. I started looking through Apple’s Developer site to see what I needed to know and kept reading I would need to learn C programming. I also recently heard about a class that Stanford University is publishing online for free about iPhone application development. While reading their syllabus I read again I would need to know how to program in C. I was getting discouraged but though I’d check it out.

I quickly noticed the structure of C is a lot like php. Of course that’s because php is written in C. That made me feel better! I’m really in the very beginning stages and I’m doing this all on my own. I’m not sure how far I’ll make it but there’s only one way to find out.

I’m sure there are a lot of you out there that are in the same boat as me. Maybe you’re a little farther ahead or are thinking about getting started so I thought I’d share some of the resources I’ve found and keep you posted on my progress. Here is a list of stuff I’ve found. If you have something better, please post it in the comments.

iPhone 2.2.1 Dev Kit from Apple (you have to sign in to get the download link) (3.0 is $99)
Online class from Stanford University called iPhone Application Development
Online Tutorial of C programming
My Delicious tag “iphonedev” where I will share these and more links in the future

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