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Ever since I got my iPod Touch I got a little interest in possibly doing some iPod Touch/iPhone programming. Then I found out you needed a mac to do it and that was that, since I didn't own one.
I then randomly saw that you could make Hackintosh on non-mac hardware.
To make a long story short, few weeks later I picked up an Inspiron 1545 for $395 shipped from Dell, and 2 weeks ago successfully installed OSX on it.
Last week I received a book in the mail that is for beginning the iPhone development. Here is a link to the book I got...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beg...9781430224594/
Since then I'm about 1/3 the way through it, almost at page 200, doing the programming exercises along the way. It is a very easy read and a good book to read/code with at the same time. I have to say, I am intrigued at the way iPhone development is done. The way all the pieces work together is pretty interesting and pretty simple to get a nice GUI functioning.
So I was just wondering if anyone on these forums has done any iPhone development and if so how did you like it? Do you have any apps on the store? I actually have an idea that once I finish this book I'm going to put it together and see if I can get it on the store. I have a few other ideas as well but not quite as simple a task as the idea I have at hand. I could probably do it as of now, but I want to finish the book first to have a pretty good grounds to begin with.
My background is CS degree and did C++ for 5 years at my first job out of school and am now doing Java which I have been doing here for like 3 months. The iPhone uses the MVC design to it's development, and that is the same design we use at my current job, so I like the familiarity in that sense.
Also I had no Objective C experience before last week, and while I still think it is funky as hell, as with anything, if you know how to code you can pick up any syntax.
I then randomly saw that you could make Hackintosh on non-mac hardware.
To make a long story short, few weeks later I picked up an Inspiron 1545 for $395 shipped from Dell, and 2 weeks ago successfully installed OSX on it.
Last week I received a book in the mail that is for beginning the iPhone development. Here is a link to the book I got...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beg...9781430224594/
Since then I'm about 1/3 the way through it, almost at page 200, doing the programming exercises along the way. It is a very easy read and a good book to read/code with at the same time. I have to say, I am intrigued at the way iPhone development is done. The way all the pieces work together is pretty interesting and pretty simple to get a nice GUI functioning.
So I was just wondering if anyone on these forums has done any iPhone development and if so how did you like it? Do you have any apps on the store? I actually have an idea that once I finish this book I'm going to put it together and see if I can get it on the store. I have a few other ideas as well but not quite as simple a task as the idea I have at hand. I could probably do it as of now, but I want to finish the book first to have a pretty good grounds to begin with.
My background is CS degree and did C++ for 5 years at my first job out of school and am now doing Java which I have been doing here for like 3 months. The iPhone uses the MVC design to it's development, and that is the same design we use at my current job, so I like the familiarity in that sense.
Also I had no Objective C experience before last week, and while I still think it is funky as hell, as with anything, if you know how to code you can pick up any syntax.
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