A few weeks ago, I started looking into iOS app development again. It’s a professional development exercise to better understand some of the educational tools that are available on this platform. Ravi Patel and I even joked about working on an app together, but nothing is in the works.
I started using Xcode about a year ago and didn’t get to far. I’m currently using Xcode 4.0.1. I can’t upgrade to the newest version without upgrading to Lion. I’m not ready to do that.
This time around, I’m spending more time researching and learning about the core concepts of Object Oriented Programming and that’s been very useful. I’ve used this new body of information to create a growing list best practices and glossary items.
It’ll be a long time before I can create something on my own. I’m still having a difficult time coding with the proper syntax and getting around the basics of the language and the Xcode interface. Things are definitely starting to click however.
I don’t even have an idea of a project to work on, but I’ll start brainstorming useful, fun ideas this spring.
@Ravi: first, your comment made me realize that a link above was broken, so I fixed that. Then, I was thinking about our conversation on opportunities and was thinking that while I’m “playing around” with XCode, we should research outsourcing in parallel. At this point, there should be plenty of information and learning as much XCode on our end would still be a good thing.
It’s no joke! But where’s the time.