Hi Max, I have no knowledge of what it's like to write an iPhone app and this is not something I'd be likely to try. That said, one of the most popular iTunes U downloads has been the Stanford University course on iPhone Application Programming. Here's the address at the iTunes Store:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.2024353965.02024599579 There are downloads for both the video lectures in the series and PDF files for the teaching slides that are used in each lecture, so be sure you use item chooser menu to find and press (VO-Space) the tabs for both the Video downloads and the PDF notes downloads. Rather than simply subscribing to the whole course -- since 23 hour-long video lectures in particular can take up a substantial amount of disk space -- I would try selecting the first one or two lectures for downloading. I took a quick look at the first lecture and the course description in the HTML area. The pre-requisites are that you have knowledge of the C programming language and a previous programming course. So I'd say that this is doable for someone with fairly modest programming background, but probably not for someone with no previous programming background. Here are the course description and prerequisites pasted from the HTML area: <begin quote> Description: Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone platform using the iPhone SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multitouch technologies. Object- oriented design using model-view-controller pattern, memory management, Objective-C programming language. iPhone APIs and tools including Xcode, Interface Builder and Instruments on Mac OS X. Other topics include: core animation, bonjour networking, mobile device power management and performance considerations. Prerequisites: C language and programming experience at the level of 106B or X. Recommended: UNIX, object-oriented programming, graphical toolkits <end quote> Note that the first lecture spends a lot of time on the administrative arrangements and introducing the instructors (ex-Stanford grads now working at Apple) before starting in on the material. They use the Apple SDK and documentations for the text, so the only absolute requirement (apart from knowledge for the pre-requisites and working with C) is having an Intel Mac to run the exercises on. HTH. Cheers, Esther Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > > Hello group; Has anyone tried writing an iphone application yet? If > so, what was the process like? Is it something anyone can do, or does > it take a lot of programming knowledge. I'm asking because a friend > suggesting creating an app to promote my website. She also said that > by creating the app it would make it easier on people viewing my site > on their iphone. As a large part of my web traffic is from people > using their cell phones, I'd really like to try this and would love > even more not making some one elses mistakes. I'll appreciate any > help i can get. Thanks in advance, Max > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
