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comment by forkthing
forkthing  ·  4814 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help a geezer to learn programming..
Less, I've not done iphone development, but I am a programmer. If I was going to start, I'd probably start here:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=iphone+development+%22getting+start...

Look through a few of the results, and pick one that you connect with, then start. This one looks promising, YMMV:

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/03/getting-starte...

Option: Mobile programming is somewhat specialized. If you don't get it right away, rather than giving up you could just try to learn the language that iphone programming is done in (objective-c, I think), and then come back to it as soon as you can (don't wait to be an expert). The second link above suggests that, under somewhat different circumstances, but it's good advice.





lessismore  ·  4814 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Interesting that you use duckduckgo.com instead of Google. Is it a better search engine for technical related searches?
forkthing  ·  4814 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Not necessarily better or worse, although it may be a little more filtered (and so a little better in that respect). I mainly use it for contrarian reasons. But it does have a lot of very useful features, and if you don't like the results it includes a link to google, bing and yahoo.

http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html

I'm a fan, but not a fan boi.