Writing applications for the iPhone
February 21st, 2010 at 5:49 pm ETAs a sometime programmer with at least a noodler’s degree of facility in half a dozen programming languages, I’ve often wondered how I might get started writing my own application. Well, now I know. I need to join Apple’s iPhone Developer Program and then learn Objective-C, either from a book or from a course.
Surprisingly, this doesn’t seem so hard. Not to say I’ll actually do it — I don’t anticipate finding the time anytime soon — but I now realize that I could, if I wanted to, learn how to develop the equivalent of
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
20 GOTO 10
or whatever, upload it to the iPhone App Store, and make my fortune!
Incidentally, the half a dozen programming languages I noted above include Perl and PHP — both of which I could probably manage to make a living at if I absolutely had to — so I shouldn’t sell myself so short. But I’ve never studied any variant of C, and even if I had, I’m still a long distance away from being able to bang out the next runaway-hit iPhone game in a weekend and quit my job. Nice dream, though…
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Rich Mintz blogs on online fundraising and social media, American history and culture, bicycling and urbanism, food, technology, and other topics. Professionally, he's an expert in fundraising, constituency development, and social media for nonprofits, cultural organizations, cause-related marketers, and corporations. He is based in New York, where he serves as Vice President, Strategy, for 
