Diving In - iOS App Development for Non-Programmers
The Series on How to Create iPhone & iPad Apps
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4.7 • 18 Ratings
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- £9.99
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Publisher Description
Winner of the Publishing Innovation Award!
"Dedicated to Steve Jobs, this self published book highlights much of
what Jobs himself strove for - clear, crisp design, intuitive interface
and user experience coupled with high quality, clear content." -
Digital Book World
"Most of the books I scanned, even the "Dummies" series, assumed a
basic knowledge of computer programming even for iOS beginners. What I
like about Kevin's writing is that he doesn't make any assumptions - he
just takes you there - step by step." - Lorraine Akemann - Moms
With Apps
"Great for developers too! With this book, I finally understand the
relationship between Xcode, Swift, Cocoa Framework, and the related
Mac tips. If I don't get a concept, the video at the end of each chapter
brings it all together. - Dan Neuman
This first book in the series from Kevin McNeish, winner of the
Publishing Innovation award, award-winning App Developer, highly acclaimed
iOS trainer and conference speaker, is specifically designed to teach
non-programmers how to create an App for the iPhone and iPad. Many books
designed for the beginning Apple developer assume way too much. In
contrast, this book series assumes you know nothing about
programming.
This first book is your "easy in" and builds confidence that you can write
Apps for the iPhone and iPad. The entire book has been reviewed by people
like you--with no experience in how to make an App. Diagrams were added
and examples improved until all "beta readers" completely understood each
key concept.
Up to Date With the Latest Technologies
The information in this book is up to date with the latest iOS
technologies, including the iOS 9 and the latest version of
Xcode. You will learn about storyboards, scenes, navigation,
displaying lists of data, animating transitions between scenes, using
maps, and much more.
Includes Step-by-Step Instructional Videos!
There are seven step-by-step instructional videos in which you watch the
author create each part of the App. This is great for non-programmers who
might need some extra help.
About the Author
Kevin McNeish is a featured writer and blogger for iPhoneLife magazine as well as author of the best-selling iOS App Development for
Non-Programmers book series, winner of the prestigious Publishing Innovation Award. Kevin is creator of iOS apps including
iElectionDay (awarded iPad App of the week) and is also Chief Software
Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc. He has a knack for explaining
difficult concepts in a way that you can truly understand.
Kevin is a well-known speaker and trainer throughout North America and
abroad including conferences such appsworld, MobileConnections,
DevConnections, MobileTeach as well as numerous Code Camps and software
developer groups.
Kevin's iPhoneLife blog: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/kevin%20mcneish
Follow Kevin on Twitter: @kjmcneish
Customer Reviews
Very Good Book
This book is written in a way that makes it easy to understand. The instructions are very clear.
VERY basic and misleading sample chapters
I bought this book on the strength of the 5-star reviews it was getting but I have to say I was thorougly disappointed with it and amazed it has got such good reviews.
When you download the sample book it implies you are going to build a delivery app from scratch complete with displaying the delivery address for a customer, status of deliveries, location on a map etc. The Author even states “This is a great app to prototype because there are many businesses that are looking for someone to create a similar delivery app for them…”
What he doesnt make clear is that what you will produce at the end of this book is a static app where all the information is hardcoded!!! The list of customers are laboriously typed in by hand into separate lines in a list view and when you select the customer and move to the next screen all the details have to be typed in my hand. No passing information from screen to screen, no change in what delivery status you clicked (he even hardcodes a tick agaist one of them to show you’ve selected it!). The majority of the text and video for this book just shows the author changing the text on labels to represent what a real functioning deliveries app might look like.
Be aware, what you produce at the end of this is totally useless for any real world application. There is NO code here - its all visual and although some people may think this is great,it is in no way programming and its impossible to do anything useful without ANY code!!!
I would definitely like a refund as this should have been pointed out in the sample book. For £6.49 what is covered in this book is outrageous as you will learn how to produce nothing more than a IOS version of a “Hello World” application at the end of it!
iOS Development for Beginners
I bought this book as I wanted to start learning to Produce iPhone and iPad apps. I am a complete beginner when it comes to programming and so I needed something that was simple and easy to understand.
In this book you are walked through the construction of a prototype app which uses 0 lines of code, not one! The app produced however is a fully functioning app, but to make use of many features that Xcode has to offer you need to add code.
The book gives you step by step instructions of how to download, install and navigate Xcode, and offers alternative ways of doing the same thing which is good because you can choose which method you prefer.
The video tutorial at the end of each chapter helps you in case you get stuck reading the written instructions, which is difficult because the book makes it seem so simple!
All in all I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is brand new to the app development scene (like me) and I am looking forward to continuing with this series in the second book "Flying with Objective-C".