[Off Topic] Best way to start iPhone OS programming?

I've had the following recommend to me and just received the programming one this week.

new to programming;
http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfprog/

new to iphone;
http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfiphonedev/

Nick Caro Desktop Support Technician

Hi J

i recommend the following books

1, Beginning iPhone Development - Apress 2. The iPhone Developers Cookbook - Sadun 3. iPhone SDK - oReilly

For version 3.0

Also learning Objective c and the cocoa book, don't have them here atm
to give you the names

Also the iPhone forums and online searches

Id never done development before of obj C just hacked php, cgi, shell
etc

I started in May and by august i had an App in the store, i know have 5
Apps and 3 more in development for release soon,

Also look on github for library's etc, tapku and three20 library's as
well as google analytics

Or ask me for any hints etc

Depends what type of app you wanna make,

I make university apps, bus stop apps, food outlet apps and magazine
apps with maps

Regards

Criss

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Go for the BNR books (Big Nerd Ranch)...the classes there are amazing, but if you don't have the cash, the books are a close second.

I suggest BNR iOS 4th Edition (I think that is the most recent), their Obj-C primer, and Kochan's ObjC book as well.

That...and...code. This stuff does not come easily to most of us humans. You have to live in the language for a long period of time before you begin to grok.

I myself went in and out of the language for quite some time until I could dedicate time and figure some things out. And then, of course, Apple's engineers decide to change quite a few things!

I trained myself by reading books, and challenging myself to build simple (and then more complex) apps. Anytime you find yourself with a repetitive task, build a simple app vs a script.

And in the words of the BNR founder, caffeine is not a substitute for sleep.