iOS Free Ways to Get into iPhone Programming

[Posimotion]

Hey everyone,

I have been doing some consulting with several people who are trying to break into the world of iPhone development. I can only take them so far and since most of them are strapped on a shoestring budget, they want some free literature to spring board from. I have been sending them to the Apple white papers and certain netcasts that I have, but was wondering what you all felt was a great free resource? Thanks peeps.

 

[dejo]

Have them check out the guides and stickies at the top of this very forum, especially this:

Stanford University now has an online course on iPhone/Cocoa programming:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p

 

[ethical]

The Stanford videos are good providing you have some experience of programming... otherwise they may go too fast and make assumptions that you wont understand (that's what I found).

The Steve Kochan book really isnt expensive... if they can spare £25 (I think) then it's well worth it.

Otherwise if they really are trying to go at it for free I found a useful pdf called Become An XCoder - it's Objective-C based so doesnt look at the iPhone GUI, but for learning the core ideas it's really good. Not sure where I found it though, do a search and it will come up.

 

[MacToddB]

Hey everyone,

I have been doing some consulting with several people who are trying to break into the world of iPhone development. I can only take them so far and since most of them are strapped on a shoestring budget, they want some free literature to spring board from. I have been sending them to the Apple white papers and certain netcasts that I have, but was wondering what you all felt was a great free resource? Thanks peeps.

I have both the older (2.x) and newer (3.x) version of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring-SDK/dp/1430216263

I'd be happy to ship them the older one. no charge... but they are welcome to buy one of my apps

 

[Posimotion]

Thank you for all the great responses guys and gals. I completely lapsed on the Stanford videos. I have never watched all of them but, it is good to know they are for the more technical crowd. Does anyone know of a wiki of some sorts that dev's can get together, chat and share code?

 

[dejo]

Does anyone know of a wiki of some sorts that dev's can get together, chat and share code?

"You're soaking in it."