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Ask HN: developing for iphone?

1 points by darwinw ↗ HN
Hi everybody,

I want to ask if anyone has tried developing for iphone. how steep is the learning curve for objective C, development tools, etc if you are coming from C,C++,C#, Visual Studio, Eclipse?

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tvon
If you want to get your feet wet in Objective-C and Cocoa-like API's (assuming you don't have a Mac), I suggest taking a look at GNUstep: http://www.gnustep.org/.
soc
I had a similar background and it took just a couple of weeks to get the basics down. I would just start by trying some of the online tutorials for obj-c/iphone and/or an iphone sdk book.

Start writing a few simple apps and you will be up to speed in no time.

Also, if you are interested in gaming the cocos2d library is very helpful.