Watching, Watching, Watching

Week went by, and the results are quite nice, though no coding just yet.

I've watched The New Boston series of tutorials by Bucky, a really good introduction into OS X and iOS development (as well as into many other programming topics).  Overall it's a great project, but for me it's very basic, still I've learned a couple of nice tricks.  Want to thank Anton for the links once again!

I've read 3/4 of Apple's 'The Objective-C Programming Language' textbook, and also started one called 'iOS Human Interface Guidelines' also by Apple.  Fascinating read, I must say, lots of design insights there.

I've updated my iPad to iOS 5, and already enjoy it!  The two greatest features for me are Messages (now I basically do not need to SMS somebody who has a recent iPhone or an iPad), and wireless sync with iTunes (it all happens in the background).  

Reading and watching how people react to the new iPhone 4S (especially the camera and Siri), I've decided this model to be my upgrade of current iPhone 3G, which feels very old to me (not in a negative way, it's a great phone, and works just fine, but there are no updates for it).  I'll still keep it around, probably for compatibility reasons to test apps on and such just as I intend to do with the very first iPod Touch.

I am also considering applying for developer's account for MacOS X and iOS later this month to get everything set up and ready to go.  Hope will have no problems.  :)

That's it for this week, preparing to code a few examples and make a simple number-guessing game using standard Apple Foundation and UI.

Picking Up the Speed

This week felt like the stairs:  one step at a time, and the progress is quite slow.  Review - Practice - Review.  Pretty much all the time.

There was however one site I've discovered which may provide me with additional challenge.  It's called Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) and provides programmers with all sorts of really captivating problems, ranging from the very simple to quite sophisticated ones.  I did the first one in C++ and it felt really nice, so I'm thinking about expanding my coding practice with the problems from the site.

I am picking up the speed, and hope to do more coding during the upcoming week.