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This is not a book for beginners - there isn't much about C-programming, or even about cocoa programming as such. You are expected to have a reasonable grasp of OOP, dot-notation and square brackets and all. What there is is very detailed annotated code for applications that you might actually use. Perhaps the code is over-annotated for some, but I found it very helpful to have a detailed, line-by-line description for those "what's going on here" moments. And in the body of the text, there is a further description of what and why.
A great book that seems to have given me enough "Aha!" moments to make me feel confident of producing something useful.
My only quibble would be that some flow diagrams would have helped. However, given the "style" of the code, which doesn't use interface builder very much, if at all, it's fairly straightforward to build your own diagrams. It is a matter of personal preference as to whether interface builder should be used or whether it's better to wire an application up in code - both may "break" with Apple upgrades/changes, so it is important to understand both approaches. And you can always get a diagram in Xcode.
Strongly recommended.
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The professional programmer’s DEITEL® guide to iPhone app development using iPhone SDK 3.x, Xcode®, Objective-C® and Cocoa®
More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great iPhone apps quickly and–once you’ve joined Apple’s fee-based iPhone Developer Program–to get them up and running on the App Store. The book uses an app-driven approach–each new technology is discussed in the context of 14 fully tested iPhone apps (7700 lines of code), complete with syntax shading, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:
- Welcome
- Spot-On Game
- Route Tracker
- Tip Calculator
- Cannon Game
- Slideshow
- Favorite Twitter® Searches
- Painter
- Voice Recorder
- Flag Quiz Game
- Address Book
- Twitter® Discount Airfares
iPhone for Programmers include practical, example-rich coverage of:
• iPhone SDK 3.x, XCode®, Interface Builder
• Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C® and Cocoa®
• Collections, GUI, Event Handling
• Controllers, Application Templates
• UIView, Multi-Touch™
• Core Audio, Core Animation, NSTimer
• Tables, UINavigationController
• Map Kit, Core Location, GPS, Compass
• Photos, iPod Library Access
• Serialization
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Complete examples, no explanations - Gary Bisaga - Leesburg, VA USA
I am not sure what I am missing that all these other reviewers are getting, but I found this book extremely frustrating. Though I looked at the book in the bookstore and was turned off by it, on the strength of the reviewers I went and bought it anyway. I sorely regret doing so. By the way, I am not a newbie programmer: I've been a strong developer for 30 years, most recently writing J2EE enterprise applications since 1996.
On the plus side, there are (as other reviewers have said) complete examples of applications, all of which you can download from the book publisher's web site. You can - after spending hours poring through the code examples - find many of the details of how to hook up the pieces into real applications.
However, for me, this advantage was completely wiped out by providing very little explanation of what is going on. Beyond the first chapter or two, explanation of what's going on in the Interface Builder is non-existent. When the application (which there was also no explanation for) doesn't work, you're left trying to figure out what you didn't hook up in the Interface Builder (which wasn't explained). Also, there is no categorized explanation of what you're dealing with - just code examples. If an interface method is not in a particular code example, you have no idea that the method exists. Just page after page of code, with textual explanations that are very little better than the code comments themselves. I could never imagine using this book beyond the initial learning curve - there's nothing you could call a "reference." Finally, the page after page of method listings are not in any way connected together: you have to keep flipping back and forth to figure out what class a given method belongs to. And at least one sample app (the Address Book) does not build for me.
I think the Interface Builder problems point out the overall weakness of this book. Code examples might be ok for a purely code-based system, but developing iPhone apps is not - at least, the way it's presented in the book - a code-driven approach: it all starts in the Interface Builder. More coverage of that tool might have pulled the pieces together.
All in all, good context of its examples, but did not at all work for me to learn iPhone programming. I've been much more impressed with iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual.
Awesome Book - Richard Casanova - Boca Raton, FL
I just Book this Book 1 week ago and i m already writing codes and apps for the iphone
This is the best book out there for iphone
BUY IT!!!!!!!
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