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Stanford iOS Development (CS193P)
Stanford University
5 recommenders · 6 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2013–2015 · score 4.8
Stanford's CS193P iOS development course, distributed through iTunes U, teaches building iPhone and iPad apps with Objective-C and Apple's frameworks through video lectures. It covers core iOS app architecture such as view controllers and the MVC design pattern.
Commenters call it a free, easy-to-follow set of video lectures for learning iOS, especially for beginners with some programming background.
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Not so sure about books but I highly recommend http://www.raywenderlich.com/ for tutorials for getting started with iOS. If you already have some object oriented programming experience I would recommend the Stanford iOS course on Itunes U, but that will be tough if you have not programmed much…
Stanford University has a set of nice iOS / Obj-C video lectures hosted on iTunes U for free. As for books, everyone seems to recommend the Nerd Ranch series (which I haven't read) - although I quite like Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan, although it focuses more on the language and…
Just to clarify: An Excel spreadsheet is not a database. But yes, they do contain all the data you need, so what you're asking is absolutely possible. Although it's probably a bit more complicated than you realize if you haven't done any iOS development before. I suggest you get started with a…
I would suggest getting some source control in. It's important that you are able to go back to previous versions or have different branches for various features or possible demos. I would suggest using GIT since XCode can create a local repository for you. If you want to go more deep into testing…
I would also suggest checking out Apple's video documentations and Stanford's iOS lectures on iTunes U. They are great resources to learn. From the brief description of your goal, you could probably do both. Building menu is using multiple views. You would want to look into how viewcontrollers…
I really recommend checking out the Stanford courses on iOS development from iTunes U. The videos are really easy for beginners to grasp.
Most likely, you are not the only one who thought about that idea. Others have too (or will soon enough). Keeping it a secret won't really matter. If you ever create that app, someone might still copy that idea and execute it better (there was a German company that excelled in this business model…