Comments on: What I Wish I Knew Before I Jumped Into iOS Part II

By: Basel Farag

Basel Farag — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:13:00 +0000

Hi Sean. Sorry for getting back to you so late! I thought I’d commented this but apparently I did not. I have a lot of advice on Objective-C! I have a special place for Objective-C in my heart 🙂 I would highly recommend you checking out the Big Nerd Ranch’s book on Objective-C. It goes through dozens of little exercise like the one you mention where the reader builds small, toy apps to learn the language. I’d also check out this repo: https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/KZPlayground

A Swift + Objective-C Repo? Oh yeah! I’ve got lots of other suggestions if you need more. Just let me know.

By: Basel Farag

Basel Farag — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:35:00 +0000

In reply to Sean Chase.

Hi Sean!

Tons of advice on Objective-C. If you’re interested in doing a simple demo poke around the Ray Wenderlich site. If you’re merely interested in learning the syntax of Objective-C I would poke around the BNR Objective-C book series. http://amzn.to/1OYrWL7

By: Basel Farag

Basel Farag — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:32:00 +0000

Oh my goodness I can’t believe I forgot Natasha! If you’re reading this, you should definitely follow her.

I would also second attending conferences. Conferences are where you can form lasting relationships and learn an amazing amount.

I would agree that, in general, it is best to read rather than watch videos. I wanted to add the Stanford Course by the renowned Hegarty however because I’ve heard rumblings of an iOS 9 course, I decided not to include him in my writing. Besides that, my list was less focused on those learning iOS development from scratch as much as those already involved and who have some grasp of the languages–but that is a great source to mention regardless!

And check out Thomas’s stuff if you’re a newbie. He’s well known in the community and is someone I could have just as easily added to the list were it not for limited space 🙂

By: Sean Chase

Sean Chase — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:55:00 +0000

Hi Basel, I’m an experienced Windows dev and I just got my first mac and started with the Swift programming language book using the playground to try things out, and I’m working through the food tracker tutorial on the apple dev site. Thanks for that advice, I’m really enjoying it! I’d like to go through the same process with learning Objective C (at least fundamentals) and do a quick tutorial like the food tracker….any advice on that for Objective C? Thanks!

By: Thomas Hanning

Thomas Hanning — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:48:00 +0000

Great posts!

You are right, Twitter is a very good source for knowledge. Following the industry leaders give you a lot of value. I just want to add two people to your very good list of Twitter accounts: @NatashaTheRobot and @chriseidhof. Both of them are very famous people in the iOS developer community and they are producing a lot of high-valuable content.

Besides joining meetups I would also recommend to attend conferences. There are a lot of iOS conferences around the world and you can learn a lot.

I also think that it is better to read instead of watching videos because it is a lot faster. However, there is one really very good video course I highly recommend: The “Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift” course. It is a lecture at Standford University and a very good starting point for iOS developers. You can find it at iTunes U:

https://itunes.apple.com/de/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swift/id961180099

I’ve also created a Swift Tutorial for absolute beginners. You can find it on my blog:

http://www.thomashanning.com/swift-tutorial-for-beginners-part-1/