I am on a journey to write my first iPhone app. I have 2 apps planned that I want to write. I have programmed in the past, I’ve worked with VB 6 on Windows and I design websites using PHP every day. So I did my research to figure out where to start. If you haven’t done any programming you should learn C Programming language first. So thats where I am starting. C is a good base language to learn. Learning C will get you on your way to writing a program for the iPhone and it is the basis language for Java, C++, and Objective-C. 

Know that I have a place to start I found the book for me. I bought “Learning C on the Mac” by Dave Mark from the publisher Apress. Apress has a good series of books for learning to program on the Mac.
Here is my syllabus of books:

• “Learning C on the Mac” by Dave Mark 
• “Learning Objective-C on the Mac” by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster 
• “Beginning iPhone Development” by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche 
• “Learn Cocoa on the Mac” by Dave Mark

I will try to post a daily update.

Day 1: OK I read the first 5 chapters in “Learning C on the Mac”. I am starting to see the similarities between C, PHP and Java. If you know Java or PHP you should have no problem with this book.

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