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, more practice, and create a more natural connection of synapses in your brain. Initially, many traditional Computer Science colleagues of mine 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.

This third “Hello World” application introduces you to some cool new concepts such as Strings, Delegates, ...

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