{"id":2289,"date":"2009-04-24T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2009-04-24T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T01:16:41","slug":"starting-iphone-programming-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/24\/starting-iphone-programming-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting iPhone Programming Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few small tips for what to do when starting up programming for the iPhone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJust a few tips from my experience in learning to program apps for the iPhone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t begin by using Interface Builder.  Interface Builder may be a great tool once you understand what is going on, but it obscures a lot of the basics when you are starting up.  As a corollary, tutorials which use Interface Builder aren&#8217;t as useful as those that don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Right click is your friend for looking up documentation in Xcode.  Want to remember more about UIViewController?  Simply right click on &#8220;UIViewController&#8221; and pull up a documentation search or the API entry.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve never programmed in objective-C, I recommend digging through &#8220;The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language.&#8221;  After that I highly recommend reading &#8220;iPhone Application Programming Guide.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\">stackoverflow.com<\/a> is a great source for finding answers to your questions.<\/li>\n<li>Stanford has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/class\/cs193p\/cgi-bin\/drupal\/\">class on iPhone programming<\/a> with lectures available on the iTunes U.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few small tips for what to do when starting up programming for the iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}