iPhone Programming

The main reason I started learning Ruby was to gain the requisite skills for making iPhone applications. I don’t think my skills are anywhere near where they need to be, and I have only the slightest knowledge of C, but I see no reason why that means I shouldn’t dive right in. And so I’m pursuing a three-prong strategy: I’m simultaneously learning Ruby, C, and following iPhone tutorials. Lately I’ve been working on the last of these.

I found a nice series of tutorials on iCodeBlog. I’ve been following the directions very carefully, and retyping the provided code into Xcode (which, by the way, has amazing auto-completion). Build errors! It seems I’m not that great, and make a lot of typos, but Xcode always seems to find them for me ;) At any rate, I’ve successfully made several useless apps. Now I’m following a big, multi-part tutorial on that site for making a To-do app. I don’t really understand the code I’m typing out, at least not to a large degree, but I figure I’ll have plenty of time to go back and actually learn Objective-C; I just really want to make something tangible in a hurry, so I have a taste of what I’m ultimately aiming for.