Want to learn iPhone Programming on 10.5 PPC, can i do this?

I want to self teach my self to program iPhone applications, i have no programming experience so inwill be starting from scratch. I have got the book 'Objective-C For Absolute Beginners' but before I begin I wanted to check I can learn using my system. I have a iMac G4 PPC running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which means I cannot run the latest version of Xcode. Is the latest version of Xcode that can run on 10.5.8 and on a PPC machine okay for me to practice and learn how to use Xcode and program for the iPhone? Because I don't have the money but when I can afford it I will upgrade to an intel computer maybe in a years time. But will it do for now?

AndiWhitts wrote:
Yes that's what I'm after, so writing program's for my mac is similar to iPhone app development only with a different UI ect.? and they definitely both use Objective-C? And the current Xcode I got with my leopard install will have everything I need won't it.
There are definitely some similarities. The lower-level libraries are very similar. At the application level, and the UI architecture level, they are significantly different.
I just wanted to make a start before I get an intel mac but I didn't want to learn it all then have to start from scratch when I get an intel mac because it is completely different.
You wouldn't start from "scatch" because it wouldn't be "completely" different. You would be starting near the beginning because it is 70% different.
If you want to start with the machine you have, focus on writing Mac apps. In a year, maybe you might have something that you could port to Xcode4 and release in the App Store.
Any machine made since 2007 will run Lion.

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