Good advice, thanks Roland. I do have an idea and a project, so I will just go ahead and dive in.
One thing I'm not sure about yet is the use of 'storyboards'. Apple uses it in their tutorial, but the two books I mentioned seem to hardly touch on it. Maybe it is too new to have been included inthose books? - Koen. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > With respect to Mssrs Hillegass and Dudney, if you have a good knowledge of > OSX Cocoa I think you are probably going to do as well jumping in and > reading what docs and sample code Apple has trying to convert your brain to > iOS. My experience, going the other way, is that the iOS interface is > cleaner and has less 'oh really' moments than the OSX one. I like the stuff > Matt Neuburg publishes, I admit to reading that which he's made publicly > available without purchasing the book (sorry Matt) and he's quite > methodical about going through the framework which I think might also work > quite well for someone with an already working knowledge transitioning over. > > I would probably start by assuming you know most of what you need to know, > jump in and have a few headscratchers and see if you think you are missing > something. It's more similar than it is different and just getting your head > around that little screen on the iPhone or the sligthly-too-large one on the > iPad is possibly most of the difficulty. Think of a project, code it, ask > questions here. > > Roland > > PS no bindings on iOS, I count myself lucky. Jury still out on Autolayout > and no menus is somewhat of a win. > > > > On 22 Feb, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Having a lot of knowledge of and experience with Cocoa/ObjC/OSX I am > looking for a good introduction to making iOS apps. Starting at > Apple's dev website I did the BirdWatching tutorial. When searching > for books, two jump out: the ones by Hillegass and by Dudney. However, > based on their table of contents, both seem to require not much > previous knowledge and therefore spent several chapters explaining the > basics. > > Also found lots of tutorials, but I cannot judge the quality of those, > and again they all seem to be for kids with hardly any programming > knowledge. > > What do you guys think, shall I just go ahead and get one of those > books, or did I miss some? I think what I am looking the most for is > some text that focuses on differences between iOS and OSX, so that I > am not using techniques (eg bindings) and patterns that will not work > on iOS. > > Thanks, > > - Koen. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
