FYI, in looking for material to use, from my experience, it is also important to know what to avoid.
Ignore anything that is older than two years and any older material that references any version of Xcode before 4. A lot of the books that I do buy, (Matt's, Erica's, Vandad Nahavandipoor's) serve as wonderful references even if you do not read the the entire book/pdf. Also, and I feel that this is critical, if you do not yet fully understand deployment, provisioning and the whole certificate mess, (especially if you plan on doing Enterprise deployment), it's really really important to get your head around that. Here is a list of the resources that I have tabulated/recommended for my team. Some of these may be too junior for you, but they are here for your reference. Also, previous years of the WWDC videos and PDFs from 2010, 2011 and 2012 are often invaluable resources for reference and instruction. They are massive but are easily recompressed to MP4 and can take up 1/2 the file size and still get look great. Essential iOS Build and Release http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022282.do iOS Programming http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-6-by-tutorials iOS Programming http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-apprentice iOS Programming http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023562.do iOS 6 Programming http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027683.do Cocoa Design Patterns http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Design-Patterns-Erik-Buck/dp/0321535022 https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaDesignPatterns/CocoaDesignPatterns.html http://iphone2009.crowdvine.com/talk/presentation_file/5106/Buck_-_Cocoa_Design_Patterns.pdf Apple Reference Documentation https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/index.html?section=Resource+Types&topic=Getting+Started# Apple iOS Dev Videos https://developer.apple.com/videos/ios/ https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/ On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: > Having a lot of knowledge of and experience with Cocoa/ObjC/OSX I am > looking for a good introduction to making iOS apps. Starting at > Apple's dev website I did the BirdWatching tutorial. When searching > for books, two jump out: the ones by Hillegass and by Dudney. However, > based on their table of contents, both seem to require not much > previous knowledge and therefore spent several chapters explaining the > basics. > > Also found lots of tutorials, but I cannot judge the quality of those, > and again they all seem to be for kids with hardly any programming > knowledge. > > What do you guys think, shall I just go ahead and get one of those > books, or did I miss some? I think what I am looking the most for is > some text that focuses on differences between iOS and OSX, so that I > am not using techniques (eg bindings) and patterns that will not work > on iOS. > > Thanks, > > - Koen. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
