Getting Started

In order to create iPhone apps for the iOS devices (iPhone, iTouch, iPad, iPad Mini), I discovered that I have to learn just enough syntax of the C Programming Language, the Objective-C Programming Language, and the Swift Programming Language.

If you’ve never created apps for Apple’s hand-held devices (iPhone/iPad), then you should definitely read lessons in the order presented in the tables below. By doing these lessons, you learn how to use the Software Development Kit (SDK) and basic syntax of C, Objective-C, and Swift. You need to learn basic syntax of these programming languages so you can write code that make an app work. Without code, an iPhone/iPad app will be useless to the user.

Software Development Kit	Fundamental C Programming	Fundamental Objective-C Programming
Download and Install Xcode Create an iOS App The Application Sandbox How an App Work on an iDevice Main Tools of The SDK Sub Tools of The SDK	Pointer Variable Control Structures Operators	OOP Concepts iOS Memory Management The BOOL Data Type The NSString Class The NSArray Class The NSMutableArray Class The NSDictionary Class The NSMutableDictionary Class The NSSet Class The NSDate Class The NSURL Class The NSNumber Class The NSNumberFormatter Class The NSDecimalNumber Class The NSData Class NSNumber and Collection Literals

Fundamental Swift Programming

Overview of Xcode 6 IDE & Swift Swift Variable and Constants Array Tuple Optional Type Casting Functions Dictionary For and For-in Loop While and Do-while Loop Conditional Common String Manipulation Methods Closure

Once you’ve completed above workshops, you should move on to workshops presented in other areas of The App Lady website. Once a week, I post a workshop, along with source code on the site.