Thanks everyone for the helpful info. Highly appreciated! - Koen.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > FYI, in looking for material to use, from my experience, it is also > important to know what to avoid. > > Ignore anything that is older than two years and any older material that > references any version of Xcode before 4. > > > A lot of the books that I do buy, (Matt's, Erica's, Vandad Nahavandipoor's) > serve as wonderful references even if you do not read the the entire > book/pdf. > > Also, and I feel that this is critical, if you do not yet fully understand > deployment, provisioning and the whole certificate mess, (especially if you > plan on doing Enterprise deployment), it's really really important to get > your head around that. > > Here is a list of the resources that I have tabulated/recommended for my > team. Some of these may be too junior for you, but they are here for your > reference. > > Also, previous years of the WWDC videos and PDFs from 2010, 2011 and 2012 > are often invaluable resources for reference and instruction. They are > massive but are easily recompressed to MP4 and can take up 1/2 the file size > and still get look great. > > Essential iOS Build and Release > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022282.do > > iOS Programming > http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-6-by-tutorials > > iOS Programming > http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-apprentice > > iOS Programming > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023562.do > > iOS 6 Programming > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027683.do > > Cocoa Design Patterns > http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Design-Patterns-Erik-Buck/dp/0321535022 > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaDesignPatterns/CocoaDesignPatterns.html > http://iphone2009.crowdvine.com/talk/presentation_file/5106/Buck_-_Cocoa_Design_Patterns.pdf > > Apple Reference Documentation > https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action > https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/index.html?section=Resource+Types&topic=Getting+Started# > > Apple iOS Dev Videos > https://developer.apple.com/videos/ios/ > https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/ > > > On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Koen van der Drift 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/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com > > _______________________________________________ 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
