0. Getting started

Welcome to our first post! This is an exciting time to be alive! Never before has it been so easy to reach the wallets of hundreds of millions of prospective customers around the world. Such is the landscape of the lucrative and extremely fast-growing landscape of mobile app development.

The goal of this blog is to help people that want to get into programming (particularly iOS development) that don't have any background with it. In order to get going with this material, there are a few decisions you need to make. You need to gauge how committed you are to following through with this process. It isn't exactly easy, but definitely worthwhile!

In order to begin development for the iOS platform, you need to get a Mac! Some of you PC folks out there might groan and moan about this, but trust me, Apple is doing you a favor here! Once you convert, there is no looking back!

After you get a Mac, you need to download Xcode, which is a free app from the Mac App Store. This is the program that allows you to write programs. It was also written in Xcode...kind of trippy.

After you get that far, you are ready to get going on learning how in the world you use these tools to make a product worth selling to people. Building an iOS app is just like building anything else. You have tools, and you use your brains, logic, ability, creativity, and imagination to create something that didn't exist before. It is actually a very rewarding experience.

I hope to help lay the essential foundation of what you need to know through posts on this blog. I definitely won't be able to go over everything there is to know, but I want to help you get to a point where you can find answers to problems because you know what to ask, and where to look.

Writing software is all about leveraging human made tools to talk to a computer. We are in the driver's seat, and we are the ones in control of what we want to do. The computer just listens. All of the lessons and tutorials that you will go through in this long journey are aimed at helping you better communicate with the computer what it is you want it to do.

I hope you stay with me as we go through all of these great topics, it will be the best thing you can do for yourself!