[Please see my new iPhone apps page]

Last week I decided to give iPhone programming a try after having download the iPhone SDK a while back. I started to get frustrated with Objective-C because it’s quite a lot different to my old friend, C++ and so I had problems getting into it. In order to learn, I decided to set a challenge of creating an IP calculator program (something which there are only non-free ones of in the App Store).

I managed to get quite far with the programming and had the software displaying a reasonable GUI which seemed to be pretty good, but I was struggling to work out where to put code and exactly what I should be doing about calling functions on objects (quite different in Objective-C compared to C/C++). Feeling a bit depressed by not being able to understand the code I decided to buy Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X which had very good reviews.

The book arrived today, and I read a few chapters and managed to actually finish the first version of my software! Woo! So, I am now an iPhone application developer… apparently… Hopefully I’ll keep creating better things and improving on this very crude first version.

(Unfortunately I can’t test on my iPod Touch yet as I don’t have a license to install on real devices – it costs $99!)