Downloaded Stanford University iTunes programming Course and printed the lessons slides (yes thank you for the black background - now have no printer ink left - good to see 2010 version is white!)
Watched all of the lessons and completed most of the assignments (HelloPoly etc) - some worked without any problems - some I resorted to downloading a sample solution and working the answer back. I was disappointed that there was no Core Data module (Winter 2010 version does include this). But overall worth doing - I definitely learnt more by trying the assignments and getting it wrong and then having to work out the solution.
This course also made me realise that I needed to work on my Objective C so I invested in Learn Objective-C on the Mac by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster - this filled in some gaps. I also bought 'Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass' (I am a sucker for the 'buy 2 for x amount' marketing ploy that Amazon offer!!!). I know this is probably a really good bok and very important but it still sits on my office shelf and makes me feel guilty as it remains unread!
VitVot - My experience of becoming an iPhone developer in 18 months. I am an experienced Windows developer who decided in December 2009 to start learning Objective-C and how to use the SDK (xCode) with a view develop and publish iPhone applications.
