The Next Iteration of Me

So I am just about done reading through this book "Head First C#", and I have to say I was very pleased with the style of the book. It uses pictures to deliver the point more thoroughly than purely words can accomplish. It also makes use of repetition to make sure that key points are driven home. Now, this book, like many programming books, is very remedial at the beginning. There are probably a few chapters that you can skim through because they cover topics that most software developers would know, but they are still worth skimming as there are still C# nuances in the simplest of things.

I was so pleased with the style of writing and how it lent itself to learning that I decided to order another Head First book. Head First iPhone Development should be arriving in a couple of days. There are a couple of things that you need to know before diving in to iPhone development, and the first of those things is that you need to have a Mac to run the SDK. There are ways to get your PC to boot Mac, and do it on there, but even with that method there are a lot of drawbacks. I had been wanting a personal laptop for a while now, and while I occasionally enjoy making fun of Apple, I can see the personal advantages of learning another operating system, and set of IDEs. With that being said I have ordered a MacBook Pro. It should arrive fairly closely in relation to the Head First book so I should be able to get started with both around the same time.

I do not want to limit my mobile development to one platform, and since I have an HTC Incredible for a phone I will be picking up Head First Android Development when it is released in March. Understanding how both operating systems work, and how to develop applications for both platforms will be much more valuable to me than only learning one.

What you can expect to see in the future is a sort of chronicling of my journey through learning how to develop on the iPhone. There may also be remarks related to running as that is one of my favorite things to do, and where I think a lot about programming, and things that I want to learn.

It's time to pick up a book and learn something new and exciting!