Review: Apress Beginning iPhone Development

I’ve been working through Apress‘s Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK. The has it’s own website where the writers host a forum and source code samples. It’s a great book to get you started with iPhone App Development. The authors do a great job walking you through the steps and explaining the lines of code you’re writing. They also keep updated source code and Errata. This book is for the SDK 2.0 and not the newly released iPhone 3.0 OS and SDK. It’s also important to note that book emphasis that you have some knowledge of C, Objective-C or at least pick up the Learn Objective–C on the Mac (Learn Series) book and work through that first. This is an introductory book. It is by no means a cookbook or a book on advanced topics for iPhone development. What the book does do really well, is give you a great foundation to build on. Instead of hacking together code and seeing what it does, the book shows you how to do things in ways minimize your future headaches and also give you some standard process of development.

Pros:

Great introduction to the SDK
Up to date Source Code for the book on the website
Book forums for asking questions and interacting
Great way to get started in iPhone development

Cons:

No sounds API examples or chapter
Needs some more XCode help as most developers are learning XCode for the first time.
Needs a bit more help on debugging iPhone code
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John Wang

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