Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#1

Post by stasy » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 4:46 AM UTC

What are some places, websites, or books that helped you learn Objective-C?

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#2

Post by sadanapalli » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 4:57 AM UTC

https://developer.apple.com/ Objective-C and iOS Programming: A Simplified Approach To Developing Apps for the Apple iPhone & iPad

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#3

Post by plasticbugs » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 5:12 AM UTC

I highly recommend Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan. After that, a free Stanford course on iTunes U is a great resource for wrapping your head around Xcode and iOS development concepts. The course number is CS193p taught by Professor Paul Hegarty. I think the newest semester is called "Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad". iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-7-apps-for...

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#4

Post by mattquiros » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 6:38 AM UTC

I've also read Stephen G. Kochan's book, but I think the Big Nerd Ranch Guides for Objective-C and iOS (two separate books) are much, much better.

I also subscribed to Stanford's CS193P on iTunes U (the last class about iOS 6) and it helped me a great deal, but I stopped watching soon as I saw the ones I just needed, and actually started coding.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#5

Post by Delphiki » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 8:47 AM UTC

http://raywenderlich.com/ has some wonderful tutorials that I used to learn. That and StackOverflow, of course haha

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#6

Post by stasy » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 2:16 AM UTC

Thanks everyone

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn iOS dev?

#7

Post by stasy » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 2:22 AM UTC

Delphiki wrote: post #5

http://raywenderlich.com/ has some wonderful tutorials that I used to learn. That and StackOverflow, of course haha

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