- ISBN13: 9780470487372
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Product Description
Here’s the fun and easy way to learn how to create your own iPhone applications
Whether you’re a professional developer or an iPhone user with a knack for technology, this plain English guide shows you how easy it can be to create your own cool iPhone and iPod touch apps. The open iPhone SDK offers a world of opportunities, and with the information in iPhone Application Development For Dummies, you can get in on the fun and profit.
You don’t need high-level programming skills to create iPhone apps. iPhone Application Development For Dummies walks you through the fundamentals for building a variety of applications using Objective-C and covers the critical steps for creating applications that get accepted into the AppStore.
- Apple’s open SDK for the iPhone allows any developer to create iPhone applications
- This guide helps you develop new applications for use on your own iPhone or for release to other iPhone and iPod Touch users
- Covers small and large-scale application development
- Shows how to develop usingObjective-C
- Enables both novice and experienced programmers to leverage the marketing power of the open iPhone SDK
The iPhone is the hottest smart phone around, and with iPhone Application Development For Dummies, you can create cool new apps to make it even more exciting.
This book is fine if you are either a) an experienced programmer (i.e. not a ‘dummy’) or b) very interested in the science of programming. When I bought this book I just wanted to learn how to program the iPhone but it spends FAR TOO LONG explaining, in mind-numbing detail, all about the environment before you actually get down to do some coding.
They need to get people who find coding HARD to write these books.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m sure the author of this meant the writing to be chatty and witty personable, but the end result is that he tries too hard (and still fails) at those things to the detriment of actually teaching you anything useful about building iPhone applications. The pace is so slow as to disrupt any continuity in the material presented, and frustrate anyone actually trying to get something done.
If you want to learn at a pace that lets you start getting things done quickly, I recommend the excellent Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK and the Stanford CS193P course videos (available for free on iTunes).
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is horrible if you are just getting started with iPhone application development and Objective-C. I bought it after flipping through all the other iPhone for beginner books thinking it had more explainations after each step. Little did i realize that the explainations needed more explaining!!!!
Horribley dissappointed by what this book assumes you know with just the nomenclature of Objective C and XCode. Spends more time going over the history of NeXT computers than any real syntax of Objective-C. Obviously, the author is juat another clueless fan boy!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I appreciate this book being a newbie to developing apps on the iPhone and a relative newbie to Xcode and Objective-C.
This book does a good job stepping you through everything you need to know to create your first iPhone Application using a couple of real world examples.
I dd not give it 5 stars because of the editing/proofreading. There are several glaring typos and grammatical errors (and I’m not the best with grammar!).
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was a very bad experience for me. I’ve taught myself a great deal of computing through books, and this one doesn’t come up to the Dummies standard. The author assumes proficiency with Objective-C, but also that you don’t know what API means, and his examples are poor, with poor walkthroughs and directions. I would never download any app mentioned in the book. He gives you almost a preposterous amount of background to execute simple tasks, in an annoying presentation, as if you had to be a plumber to take a shower. I have never been so upset with a For Dummies book. I most enjoyed theorizing as to the nature of the person he thought he was writing too. I wish I could give it 0 stars, or an F-.
I also recommend the Apress book, which is a real and effective resource.
Rating: 1 / 5