It is the sort of thing to make your head hurt in the brain region. I suppose it is always good to give the old noggin a bit of a workout though. I bought some books and I have been working my way though some examples of making applications, starting with some foundation type apps that you have to view the output in the console. These are to explain the basics of programming and when you have got some of that done you can move on to making some that have a GUI.

I have said before that when I tried to learn programming I hit the hump as it were – that moment when the book or tutor or whatever hits you with some stuff that is either not explained or os badly explained as far as a beginner is concerned, is seems that programmers forget what it is like to be an ordinary human being and have normal thinking processes. I have had a couple of moments like that this time with looking at the Apple developer website for a tutorial while the tutorials on the Cocoalab.com web site has been much easier in comparison. That one is called ‘Become an Xcoder’ It really is good in feed in the info in small baby sized chunks.

So I am starting to think that I really could become an Xcoder of Mac, iPad and iPhone applications. I do have a couple of ideas of applications I want to create in a niche market that has not yet been covered. I will not be making any tip calculators that’s for sure, seeing as every man and his dog has already made on of those. On the Apple site it went in to so much detail that it was bordering on unintelligible so I ended up copying in code that I had no idea where it came from, why it was there and what it was supposed to do. I am working on the basis that if I go through it a couple of times or more I will pick up things bit by bit, I will be able to understand more as I go along.

I have been following the book mostly but I think it is a good idea to get a different view and take on the process by looking in other sources, like the cocoalab site and the Apple developer site. I think if I has started with the Apple tutorials I might have given up already.

OK then so if it is so difficult then why am I banging my head against the brick wall? Seems to me that creating applications for the iPad and iPhone has been proved to be a way of earning a living and I want a part of the action. I know that maybe a lot of people have a head start already and it could be a while before I can come up with something that will be useful enough to have people willing to give me money for it. But hey I do have to start somewhere.