Cingular Go Phone: iPhone SDK 3: Visual QuickStart Guide [Paperback] Review

I'm a PHP programmer by trade, self taught, without a degree in computer science. So switching from PHP to Objective-C has been a big change for me. I have purchased 3 or 4 different books on beginning iPhone Application Development (including one on Objective-C) and they all seem to either gloss over the fundamentals, or give unnecessary explanation making things even more confusing. They have made it slow for me to get started creating iPhone Applications.

This book has been an excellent guide to getting started with Objective-C and the iPhone SDK. It starts out by explaining the basics of Objective-C and Cocoa, including memory management, which PHP developers aren't usually concerned with. Then talks about the development tools you have to work with and how to get started using them. The rest of the book is chock full of examples that are essential to creating iPhone applications.

If you're the kind of person that likes to learn by example, then this is the book for you. It gets straight to the point, with clear explanations, without making you wade through a bunch of lengthy tutorials.

P.S. I just realized that I got my start as a PHP programmer because of a Visual Quickstart PHP book. I must be a fan of the Visual Quickstart Guide books because I really like the layout of the pages (how they give a code sample on the right and an explanation on the left). I just think their books are really effective.

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Product Description:
With a rich set of over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 3 provides an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality of iPhone and iPod touch applications. This book takes an introductory look at Objective-C and Cocoa before moving on to the tools you'll use to create iPhone applications. Starting with common and tasks and UI elements, the book covers using tabs and tables, files and networking, the multi-touch display, and the built-in GPS hardware.

This book will appeal to both current developers needing to understand and update their apps to the iPhone OS 3.0 and for those developers just starting out who need a complete tutorial and reference to the iPhone SDK 3.

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