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iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone
by Jonathan Zdziarski
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Greate API primer, OOP crash course
  Coming from a PHP world, Object-Oriented Programming can be difficult to wrap your mind around. Thankfully the introduction chapters here aren't too far overhead. OOP concepts are a must-have for modern programmers, and this book makes no contentions to teach you Objective-C directly. However, the author has included some good references to where you can take beginner OOP courses.
  Through the first year of iPhone's being and well into the pre-2.0 and post-2.0 environment, this book proves invaluable... more info

• Excellent Book.
  This book was a life saver. A few months ago, when I first started coding for the iPhone, I had no clue what to do with anything. There was literally NO DOCUMENTATION whatsoever. However, this book make learning the iPhone's API a breeze. Since then, I've gone on to make several well known iPhone 1.x applications, including PocketTouch, FontSwap, and StatusStyle.
  I would highly recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn how to start coding great applications for the iPhone.

• Great book, just know what you are looking for
  As the other reviewers mentioned this book doesn't specifically talk about the Apple Official SDK, but ALOT of the information is the same. In fact there is no other source that you can find with such clean and simple instructions. Also, if you are planning on NOT using IB to make your UI this book is gold since that info is hard if not impossible to find.

• Well-written and informative... for its time
  While this book was well written and informative, it is well past its prime now. Apple's Official SDK is no longer beta, and thrid-party apps are flowing on the AppStore. While there may still be a reason to jailbreak and write completely open and un-restricted apps, this book is still stuck way in the past. The v2.0 firmware has changed so radically that the examples and teaching in this book will only hurt the would-be developer.
  Wait for the new batch of books about the offical SDK coming out this... more info

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