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Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK |  | Authors: Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche
Brand: Apress
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Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 1850
Media: Paperback
Pages: 584
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1.3
MPN: 1-4302-2459-2
ISBN: 1430224592
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.26
EAN: 9781430224594
ASIN: 1430224592
Publication Date: July 21, 2009
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Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, this book offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone and iPod touch programming.
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 iphone book for involving into iphone development November 19, 2009
Alejandro Verdin (DF, Mexico)
perfect purchase to get into iphone development. it guides you chapter from chapter into knowing what you need to do basic apps.
Widely recommended if you want to buy a starters -mid level book for iphone dev.
 A Great Book November 14, 2009
Ale (italy)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you intend on learning iPhone development, then go ahead and buy this book without thinking twice. It covers all the basic aspects of iPhone development through a very complete series of examples, it gives you a lot of valuable information and it is well written and easy to follow
In a word: raccomended
Excellent Beginners iPhone Book, assumes Objective-C knowledge, some errors in sample code November 11, 2009
Edgardo Rivera (Barceloneta, Puerto Rico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before you buy a programming book you should learns what's its intended audience and you should read the reviews to know if it's a proper fit to your background. The book assumes no prior knowledge of Java or C++ like some competing iPhone development books, but it does assume that you already know Objective-C. In my case, I hadn't worked in any flavor of C since college.
Therefore, I read Stephen G. Kochan's excellent "Programming in Objective-C 2.0" Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) before starting with this book and I had no problems. Although I took many C and Unix courses in college (many moons ago) my programming experience is mostly with VBA and databases on Windows PC's, so if I was able to understand the material, so should many of you with experience in more advanced development languages such as Java or C++. Note that Kochan's book is intended, as an introductory programming book, and it does not assume any previous programming knowledge of any kind, including "C". If you were a raw beginner in computer programming, I would strongly recommend Kochan's book before you try your hand at this one.
I started reading the first edition and I switched to this one when it was published. This edition corrects many of the typos and sample code errors from the first edition but unfortunately it also introduces some new ones of its own. For the first edition, the authors did an excellent job publishing errata on their website but for this edition none has been published as of this writing. I suspect the author is very busy working on other iPhone development books he has coming out in the near future. Still, I was able to use common sense to work around some of the minor errors in this edition. Most programming books I've seen in my career have errors of some sort and you should always lookup the errata from the publisher's web sites. Having read both editions, I believe the authors seemed to have done a good job updating their samples to SDK 3 conventions.
Finally, other reviewers have criticized this book for not covering some details. As the title states, this is a "Beginning" book. When you finish reading this and you want to learn more you should read the Apple documentation or other iPhone sub-topic specific books. I look forward to reading the author's upcoming "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3". The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because of the remaining errors in the sample code and the lack of errata (as of this writing) for this edition.
NIce book November 5, 2009
Yufeng Zhou (CA, USA)
Good for a beginner. Wish it provides a CD with the sample code rather than pointing to their web site which is difficult to find the source code.
Great tool for beginners and intermediates November 1, 2009
Felipe F. Tonello (Sao Jose dos Campos, SP Brazil)
This book is really complete! It's not focused on Objective-C, of course, but it shows some basics from it and what you should know to program for iPhone.
I think the best of this book is because it's really complete. Very detailed and with a lot of tips. Really useful for those who want to really learn how to be a good iPhone developer.
I do not recommend for those who don't know how to program at all. You should understand Oriented Object Programming at least.
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