Ask HN: developing for iphone?

1 pointsby darwinwvor 17 Jahren3 comments

Hi everybody,

I want to ask if anyone has tried developing for iphone. how steep is the learning curve for objective C, development tools, etc if you are coming from C,C++,C#, Visual Studio, Eclipse?

3 comments

socvor 17 Jahren

I had a similar background and it took just a couple of weeks to get the basics down. I would just start by trying some of the online tutorials for obj-c/iphone and/or an iphone sdk book.

Start writing a few simple apps and you will be up to speed in no time.

Also, if you are interested in gaming the cocos2d library is very helpful.

tvonvor 17 Jahren

If you want to get your feet wet in Objective-C and Cocoa-like API's (assuming you don't have a Mac), I suggest taking a look at GNUstep: http://www.gnustep.org/.

darwinwvor 17 Jahren

thanks for the advice