Ask HN: Resources for learning IOS programming

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Good afternoon,

I'm a Ruby and JAVA developer and would like to know some (good!) resources to learn IOS programming. I'm aware that Apple provides a bunch of tutorials and guides, but i'm looking for more practical examples, books, etc.

Thanks in advance, Pedro

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You may want to check out the Quora thread on learning iOS (http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-resources-to-learn-iO...). When I was starting to learn iOS I saw this thread and picked up the Big Nerd Ranch book. I read through it and I believe it was very useful.

Read the reviews, YMMV, but after reading the BNR book I felt comfortable reading the Apple docs for the rest of the stuff I needed to learn.

There are hundreds of really good tutorials here: http://www.raywenderlich.com

For an Objective-C book pick up: "Programming Objective-C" (5th edition already!) [1]

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo...

The biggest help for me was The Big Nerd Ranch book for iOS. http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/...

By the second chapter I felt confident enough to start trying things out on my own and tutorials made a lot more sense.

I learned by taking the free Stanford iPhone class. You can find details here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

The lectures are on iTunesU and you can even do the assignments to get some practice.

I'd start here: https://teamtreehouse.com/

It's a paid service, but I've found it's the best way to start learning programming.

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