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Thread: Good books?

Started 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Xandan
I have a lot of frees in college now and plan on learning some objective c and iPhone programming soon after. Can anyone suggest some good books preferably one on each?
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micah replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm very new to iPhone development, but I come from a programming/graphics design/game dev back when I was in high school background. But I read and skimmed the Objective-C primer and some of the gettings started guides at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ , and I bought a rough cut of iPhone Game Development, http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805265/ . It hasn't been released yet, but ...

Catacomber replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Quote: Originally Posted by micah I'm very new to iPhone development, but I come from a programming/graphics design/game dev back when I was in high school background. But I read and skimmed the Objective-C primer and some of the gettings started guides at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ , and I bought a rough cut of iPhone Game ...

micah replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Also, I don't think there are any books out for it at all, but you should check out cocos2d-iphone . It's a 2d game programming framework written in objective-c and I'm in the process of learning it right now. It's free and open source, and it's perfectly fine to use it in your commercial games. I've heard of unity3d, and I've thought about looking into it, but for the near future I think I'm...

Xandan replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Well you're all assuming I want to learn to make games.. That's further down the road, right now all I want is to learn to make apps at the moment.

Catacomber replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Quote: Originally Posted by Xandan Well you're all assuming I want to learn to make games.. That's further down the road, right now all I want is to learn to make apps at the moment. General iphone programming--- Programming in Objective - C by Stephen Kochan is good for programming. Beginning iphone ...

Xandan replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Programming in Objective - C by Stephen Kochan seems a bit outdated =\

 

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Good books?
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Programming in Objective - C by Stephen Kochan seems a bit outdated =\
Catacomber
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Good books?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Xandan Well you're all assuming I want to learn to make games.. That's further down the road, right now all I want is to learn to make apps at the moment. General iphone programming--- Programming in Objective - C by Stephen Kochan is good for programming. Beginning iphone Development Exploring the iphone SDK by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche is excellent. [I will try cocos 2d. Unity can do 2d also. There is...
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Good books?
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Also, I don't think there are any books out for it at all, but you should check out cocos2d-iphone . It's a 2d game programming framework written in objective-c and I'm in the process of learning it right now. It's free and open source, and it's perfectly fine to use it in your commercial games. I've heard of unity3d, and I've thought about looking into it, but for the near future I think I'm gonna stick...

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