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Beginning iPad Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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There's many sections where it tells you to edit code that is in bold in the example, but none of it is in bold...but these are the least of my gripes. This book is saturated with spelling and grammatical errors - many of which will cause you to code incorrectly or even edit the wrong file! No, really. They just rushed this out to be the first ones to have a book on coding with the iPad. If only someone read it through once and edited it, maybe it would be alright, but this is completely unacceptable.

For me personally, it is a handy book that will get you started right away with the targetted area of ipad programming that you are interested in, i.e. Outlets, SQLite, Accelerometer, GPS etc. Chapters do not generally depend on one another, so you can just dive into a chapter on its own.

It goes through with you the basic fundamentals with a simple working application example as the end in mind.

Overall, i think that simplicity works and this book certainly fits that. Start simple with the basic fundamental building blocks, and you can take them and build your own comprehensive apps.

I was really hopeful for this book. I have dove into it, and being a Professional Software Architect and Developer for over 13 years on the Microsoft product stack, coming into the Apple world, and specifically Objective-c is a... well different world all together than working with .Net.

So With the range of topics listed that is covered in this book, again I was hopeful that this book would help me transition into the iOS platform, and allow me to create all the great iPad and also iPhone apps.

It has a great Objective-c reference appendix to help jump start the syntax hurdle of Objective-c. Also some of the starting chapters are nice, and get your introduced into some concepts. There is also some nice chartpers, like on SQLite3, and working with XML, Web Services, etc.

However, beyond this, well... as someone already pointed out, plenty of errors, and it's really a rushed book. I had to fix code errors, which helped me learn actually, within the first few chapters, on different spots. Granted I learned more from that process, you can't say that's a good sales point of this book.

Overall I would not recommend this book, but would recommend looking elsewhere. I am waiting for a truly good, deep knowledge, focused iPad book will be released. Similar to the iPhone for Programmers book, one for iPad focused apps would be great!

-Brandon

Topics covered can be largely found in other beginner's books. Lots of redundancy as a result. More depth would be welcome.

The style is clean and neat. Nice job.

I'm very, very disappointed in this book. It's full of typos and errors. Spend hours on trying to find them!! On the website wrox.com they do not even foresee the sourcecode for each exercise individually and it also contain bugs.

Don't waste your time. Look for another book.

This book reads like it was whipped together to be first to market, instead of a quality development book. I threw it out after reading it.

Don't find this review helpful? Well thats how i felt about the book. I went another route. I learned objective C from Stephen G Kochan's book.