COMPLETE noob needs direction [iphone development]

Hello friends,
I'm interested in wanting to develop apps for the iphone. I am 100% new to software development in general. Seriously, totally virgin to this stuff. Aside from playing around with a couple little hacks and customizing some of the UI on my phone (with help, haha), I really have zero experience. I've downloaded the SDK, and it all seems very overwhelming, and I feel like any tutorial I check out seems to be geared towards people who have some working knowledge of programming. can anyone help to point me in the right direction to get started? Thank you all very much in advance.
-Jim

Ok, maybe I was a bit harsh by suggesting you have no chance. If what you want to do is have a fun hobby, then maybe it will work out. I don't think I was stroking my ego though.. Everyday I am shown how inexperienced and I am by better programmers, which is one reason why I think its so hard to break into the field and not something you can do well just because you have the will to.
I agree with some of the more measured responses. Get the books, read them and if you are a good learner (which I assume you are if you're considering jumping into all this head first) you will likely be able to pull it off just fine.
SO, I amend my initial response and will just say that you better have a ton of patience and stick to it, or, you will indeed get no where and waste your time.
Seriously, I'd get a "learn to program book" (any language) and decide if you think its totally boring or if you love it - if its somewhere in between, then find a new hobby and save yourself some time. And while you're at it you may as well get one of the Obj-C oriented books mentioned in the other posts since you plan to do Cocoa.
Good luck!

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Sorry if this has been asked and answered a thousand times already but I coulnd't see anywhere to search the forum for previous threads.
I had an email earlier saying that I'm now eligable to sign up for the standard version of the iPhone Developer Program. I went ahead and paid my £59 and have a confirmation email saying everyting has been processed etc - looks like a complete transaction as far as I can tell.
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I've seen a few people mentioning iTunes Connect? but when I google that I get thousands of pages about people not being able to connect their iPods to iTunes
Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
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I've logged in, is there something specific I should be looking for?
Interestingly (and this may be irrelevant) but I still see some text a little down the screen in the right-hand colum saying...
iPhone Developer Program
The fastest path from code to customer. Apply now
iPhone Devloper Program
Already applied to the Program?
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I had a similar occurrence with my just activated iPhone 4.
I had been using the phone for three days when an odd occurrence with voice mail caused me to call tech support. After some discussion they decided to push the activation to my phone (even though I had been using it for three days). When I went to power it back up again I repeatedly got the "no service" notification. I got tech support on a land line and we tried hard reboots and so on. No joy. They told me to take it in to the point of sale and either the SIM card or the phone needed (or both) needed replacing.
I tried one last hard reboot after dinner and the phone came up with service, but I took it in to the point of sale in the morning and they swapped the SIM card out and I went to a Genius Bar appointment to get the phone checked out. It is supposedly OK, but I am still having some problems when syncing it so I will have to visit the Genius Bar again tomorrow about that. At least I have not experienced the "no service" problem in the roughly 24 hours since the SIM card was replaced. (Fingers crossed)

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I decided that I wanted to be a iPhone developer a couple of days after the March announcement. So I filled out the contact information, and of course got the reply that the beta program was full.
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I have never had to go through such hoops to become a developer for any other platform. You just pay your money and bang there your are, if you even need that. I'm not an official OS X developer because, I really don't need pre-released software.
Also, since all I want to do is just run my own apps on my own iPhone/touch, do you really have to get the official stamp of approval for Apple to get a 'signature"? Do you have to go through Apple to even distribute your apps, even if you may or may not sell them?
Finally, is there anyway to get a file to your iPhone application to read outside of adding it to your application's resources, or create a socket and read it in?
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So if you sign up these days and it takes more than a day, check your order status.
Enjoy,
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Join to iPhone Developer Program

Hello,
I would like to join the iPhone Developer Program. I printed and filled the Purchase Form which I donwloaded from apple.com. But I cannot send it by fax from Hungary.
There is a fax number on apple.com: +1(408) 862-7602. But this number don't answer this many a day. What do you think, what can I do?
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This document is presented in a pop-up window. Please ensure that you have "Block Pop-Up Windows" disabled in your browser
1. Fax your Purchase Form to Apple
Print, complete, sign, and fax the Purchase Form to iPhone Developer Program. +1 (408) 862-7602
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You will receive an activation code email from the iPhone Developer Program with instructions on activating your iPhone Developer Program.
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I was on the same path that you just went through (and are going through now). There are a number of routes you can follow (as far as I know)
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-.Net style (example, monoTouch)
-Adobe CS5 (Flash iPhone Packager)
-Airplay and the ilk (coding on windows)
-and of course, xCode.
I think all the others except Adobe CS5 is quite ahead of the game in terms of featuresets and performance.
Unfortunately of course the decision would be to abandon the actionscript coding language (which I like...a lot).
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Here goes:
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