Learn to use XCode.

I want to lean to use Xcode so that I can begin to code my own iphone apps. Does anyone know of some class I can take to do this? Also, what are my alternatives if I choose not to take a class? I already bought "iPhone Application Development for Dummies," but I was hoping that there might be an easier way than reading through the book and teaching my self.
Thanks for the help!
-Macguy3000

This forum is more for helping people use their phones.
May have more luck here:
http://devforums.apple.com/

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So I am getting ready to graduate with a degree in marketing and would like to pair it with some programming knowledge. Would xcode be something worth knowing how to use or is it best to focus on learning the different coding languages?
I have only a basic understanding of this field and would like to improve on that.
Any and all help would be great, thank you.
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If I were in your situation, I would learn Xcode and iOS App Development.
That's where all the action is right now and very likely for decades to come.
Start by getting a free developer account at: https://developer.apple.com

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I'm trying to learn how to use Xcode. I've create a simple Hide App app from a youtube video tut, but I can't get it to export with the icon I've chosen. Any clues why?

We didn't do that video. Why are you asking here?
Those videos are usually outdated....
Use the current tools etc., in the iOS Dev Center and iTunes/iTunes U ~ Stanford.

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I'm a university student & I bought an used MacBook 1,1 laptop to learn IOS developing. It has Mac OS X 10.6.8 with 2GB ram. I tried several times to upgrade to 10.8. Without upgrading to 10.8 I wasn't able to install Xcode too. I only want to use Xcode in my laptop. Therefore please can you tell me are there any way to use Xcode in my laptop. Otherwise my laptop is useless to me.
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No, you cannot upgrade to Lion. Your model does not meet the minimum system requirements. Your model does not have a Core 2 Duo processor.
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Hi all!
I'd like to start learning programming either in java as well as in C using my mac. So i've downloaded Xcode on my PB g4 10.3.9.
I know there's a lot of tutorials online on java and C, and that's fine. The hardest thing, that i really cannot solve by myself alone, it is figuering out how to manage all files that I need to use for programming on Xcode.
My question is:
Is there a book somewhere, on amazon or free or wherever, where i can find a tutorial explaining step by step programming java or C using Xcode?
So i can learn the programming tips and also how to manage them on Xcode, using my mac.
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C is a good first language because many other languages are based on it or similar. There's lots to learn with "just text," meaning applications that don't have buttons and windows and graphical user interface items. You learn about variables, constants, arrays, loops, conditionals, functions, pointers, data types, recursion, algorithms like searching and sorting, etc.
You also might find a community college class or some other class that teaches beginning programming.
The next thing to learn is some object oriented programming. C is not an object oriented language. Java, C++, and Objective-C are object oriented languages. Objects are are things that have instance variables (variables like ints or doubles or whatever that are inside the object and not so accessible to the rest of the program) and methods (functions that just work for that kind of object.)
You might ask, well why not learn an object oriented language to begin with? You can, but it may be easier to learn basic stuff in a language like C first. Both C++ and Objective-C are supersets of C, meaning they include all of C and add some more. Java is very C like and adds more.
If you're heading towards writing mac programs using Cocoa, Objective-C is good to learn because it is the most natural language for writing Cocoa programs.
Then you can get a Cocoa book, like the one by Aaron Hillegass and learn about Cocoa. Cocoa includes buttons and windows and is not "just text."
After you have learned so much about a computer language or two or three, it may be surprising that an API (application programming interface) like Cocoa is way bigger! No one can memorize it all. So you look stuff up in the documentation and search the internet and make little experiments to figure things out.

Whew! I'm overwhelmed! (re. learning C and Xcode simultaneously)

I'm about as much of a newbie when it comes to programming as you can be, and so I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction.
Recently, I've been wanting to learn how to develop simple software. I thought that C might be a good language to start with, so I went to Barnes and Noble a bought a big book that I thought could help me the most: C: Primer Plus, by Stephen Prata, publ. Sams.
So far it's great. It starts really simple on just the concept behind programming. But I'm now on page 24 where they're starting to introduce simple code. The author suggests that the reader type out the following example into our "favorite editor," compile it, and run it just to see what it does:
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Excited at the possibility of doing something hands-on, I installed a copy of XCode, booted it up, and then got completely overwhelmed! I tried to figure out what options I needed to choose in order to type, compile and run my simple program, but what I ended up choosing wouldn't work. I typed the example, but all options like "Compile" were greyed out.
So, I need your help. Obviously I need to learn more about XCode. Is there a real basic tutorial or an "XCode for Dummies" webpage that would help a programming newbie like me get started on really, really, really, basic code? What I've found thus far has been geared more toward developers who already know how to program on other platforms like Windows, and just want to get up to speed on XCode so they can develop for Mac.
Thanks! Sorry for asking such a basic question, but I didn't know where else to turn.

Kevin,
For a simple program like this (with no GUI) you need to start a new project in Xcode and in the "New Project" window scroll down to the "Command Line Utility" section and choose "Standard Tool".
Once the project window opens you should see, in the left hand "Groups & Files" pane, a folder named "Source". Expand this folder and you'll find a "main.c" file with a default hello world program. Delete the hello world code and type in your own code.
If you then click the "Build and Go" button in the toolbar your program should compile and run. It's output will be displayed in Xcode's "Run Log" window.
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I have started with writing c code on mac using xcode .....but one of my friend told me to use gcc for coding.
Why? If you are developing and writing code on a Mac why would you not use the tools Apple has given you? And Xcode, once you get use to it, is a very nice development environment that will make you life a whole lot easier.
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hello , how r u,
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Please type complete sentences and words. This isn't an instant message program.
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