Code In Vain

Most of my professional carrier is on UI development and regardless to my previous post I started learning IPhone development.

The main reason is that IPhone UI rocks it’s the best, and to be the best you have to learn from the best.

So I don’t think you’ll see me any time soon @ the ITunes store , but I’m sure i’ll get a refreshing view on UI Development.

The course i chose is Stansford’ CS193P which is publicly available online.

lesson 1 video summary :

first 42 minutes are course intro and are useless for online viewers

00:41:50  talking about mac/iphone architecture

00:48:30 cocoa actors: objects, controllers, outlets ,target/action

00:51:00 xcode and interface builder

00:53:00 create a simple application (slider changes label value)

01:03:30 lesson summary

in basics the lesson reviews very quickly the IPhone architecture and gives the first

Assignment 1 requires no coding it is intended to get you situated with the tools

Assignment 2 aim is to get started with  Objective-C by writing a small command line tool  .

the syntax is different from what i know (mainly C# and JavaScript)  and it took me some time to get use to objective c and Xcode.

some hints on objective c :

sometime functions are called with [] surrounding the function and the object  e.g.

[string lenght] is the objective c way of saying string.Lenth in c#

Sometimes I used ()  I’m still not sure why.

some hints on xcode :

auto complete (intellisense) is done with F5.