I would like to start building apps starting off with a small one. Is this even possible or d I have to learn code from going to school or get training?
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I would like to start building apps starting off with a small one. Is this even possible or d I have to learn code from going to school or get training?
Programming an iPhone App has nothing to do with rocket science at all, but there are some drawbacks to it:
You will have to use Objective-C as a programming language, which has quite a steep learning curve.
Albeit a lot of books being around on the topic of iPhone/iOS programming, I still have to see one written particularly for people new to programming in general. Same goes for the tutorials. Once you’ve written your first classic “Hello, world” programme, things will start to become difficult.
XCode (the development environment most people use) has a lot of stuff going on, which might seem to be a bit obscure at first sight (things like plist and their usage, the whole Interface Builder thing etc. come to mind).
As ChristopheD mentioned: Objective-C isn’t one of the most forgiving programming languages at all (pure C isn’t either, so why should its superset be?) and I can entirely second cdhowies advice to learn a more beginner friendly programming language (Java, for instance) first.
Whatever your decision will be: welcome to a really fascinating world!