As some of you out in Webland might be aware, I used to write web pages. I did it for a number of years, though if I’m being honest I never made it to any level I was truly pleased with. It was only ever a hobby and whilst at one point I did have ideas of moving into it as a career, I never really took it forward. I even went so far as to talk down someone who wanted to hire me because I didn’t believe I had the necessary skills required to fulfill the role. At the time I didn’t want to quit my old job and then be fired on my first day because I didn’t really know what I was talking about. A bit daft, but that’s what a liberal sprinkling of fear will do.
Over the last few months I’ve been getting up to speed with my iPhone, trying out new apps and the like. There are a number I love and a number that I think could be great if they just had certain new features. Then it hit me; why not try and right some myself?
Well, one of those reasons is that I don’t know how to write in Objective-C or Cocoa Touch. But why not learn? So I’m starting at the beginning with Dave Mark’s Learn C on the Mac. This will be the foundation to move on to other books in the series covering Objective-C, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which I hope will give me a grounding in developing for both the iPhone and the Mac. Whilst I’m not saying I want to take this up as a career, it will nonetheless be something to do in my spare time. Plus, given the ease with which developers are able to sell apps in iTunes, if I were to come up with something I liked I might be able to make some money out it.
But that’s all for the future. The starting point is with the learning, and my past experience with PHP whilst developing for the web will really come in handy. I’m currently racing through this book at a rate of knots due to the similarities between the languages, with just a slight noticeable difference in some of the syntax. At the minute I’d say it was like an Englishman reading something by an American. It makes perfect sense, but it’s just written slightly differently. More to the point, I’m enjoying it. So fingers-crossed that I’ll keep on doing so.
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