How to get started on developing iOS apps starting from ZERO programming skills?

Hi everybody!

I would like to wet my feet in programming and I'd like to know more about developing an iOS application.

I know almost nothing about programming, so I'm looking for any resource about the subject for very, VERY beginners.

Thank you very much!

 

Google is your friend buddy.

Start with searching things like "how to become an apple dev", "how to build apple apps" that kind of thing.

You will need an Apple Dev account. And you will need the iOS 7 SDK and Xcode 5 for developers.

There are also some helpful and informative videos on YouTube about it.

Best of success to you.

PS. To enroll in the iOS Developer Program costs $99 per year.

 

Thanks Mkcoy! I'm already googling about that, but as always there is a ton of information!

I just needed some recommendation on a course or a website from where I can learn the ropes and that has quality informations

I'll start with a developer account and the sdk! Thank you!

 

you can check http://teamtreehouse.com/learning-adventures/learn-to-build-iphone-apps or lynda.com

 

Hi Luke_Z,

You can learn to start building apps and learn other program languages on CodeSchool.
Here's a link for you to your iOS course: http://www.codeschool.com/paths/ios

I have learned jQuery there from scratch, but I don't know if iOS is a free course.

Hope this helps you out,

Kind Regards,

Maarten

 

If you know little of HTML and JavaScript (which are not so big deal to learn) you can still give it a go and strengthen your skill to build applications for iOS, Android, Black-Berry, Windows Phone, Symbian etc using single platform that is very popular these days. Check out MoSync, they have many tutorials and documentation as well. http://www.mosync.com/ . This way you not only build native apps for iOS but for other platforms as well [from same source].

The best part is if you also learn C++ in future you can mix that as well within HTML + Javascript based applciation in MoSync.

Wish you luck...

 

I found Appcelerator Titanium to be a good starter platform. Objective-C is absolutely horrible programming language (though some will disagree, it's a matter of taste obviously). Titanium uses primarily Javascript (compiled to Objective-C) so it's a much simpler syntax.

Their documentation is fine to get started.

You can get started with a basic Hello world app under 20 lines of code.

 

My suggestion would be to learn C first and than you can go to any other language you want. Learning C might be a bit difficult at first but its all worth it.

 

Google is great for info. But lots of it is out of date, and code samples are touch-and-go as to if they work any more (they use features or API calls that Apple deprecated looong ago)

I'd use lynda.com - there are a few people on there giving current iOS courses. It's all up to date, and video based too. I think the first month is free.

 

Go to the Apple Developers University and take their courses and you will learn exactly what you need to know along with them helping you each step of the way with building your first simple app. https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/university/

Enormous

 

If you want to learn develop IOS then firstly you need to learn language objective c. Mostly ios applications are developed in objective c. You should need to learn objective c and do practice from easy programs to complicated programs