iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Third Edition

Chapter    3

Keep on Truckin’

Now that you’ve gotten your feet wet from programming your first two iPhone and iPad apps, I want you to tell yourself that you have to keep on truckin’ with more apps and more practice. You need to create a more natural connection between the synapses in your brain.

Initially, many of my computer science colleagues had disdain for my approach of blindly hauling newbie programmers through code without explaining it all. Over the years, I’ve learned exactly when to tell you what’s going on and when to just jostle you through the code. Most importantly, you need to keep on truckin’ and keep your brain dialed into Xcode.

The third Hello World app introduces you to user interaction and if-else statements, which results ...