The journey begins

My book order from Amazon arrived on Tuesday, one day ahead of when they were scheduled. It was happiness to get them. On Wednesday, I was happy as a child at Christmas when my newly acquired MacBook was delivered by the mailman. I even went out to meet him to sign the form to bring it inside. Being that it was quite a hot day, I let the MacBook adjust to the household temperature before booting it up. It came with a base install of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. I spent the night adding the airport card to the router, downloading all the updated patches and getting the iLife components installed. I don't remember Apple putting so much into an update with the download being over 1.5 Gb! After that was all setup, I returned to the Apple website and downloaded the latest stable copy of Xcode 3.2 and the iPhone SDK.

My booklist included:
1. Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa (Pragmatic Programmers Series) by Tom Isted
2. Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running by Scott Stevenson
3. Head First iPhone Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone by Dan and Tracey Pilone
4. iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Aaron Hillegass and Joe Conway

There are a lot of house projects going on right now so I don't know when I will be able to make my first real attempts. I will continue to try and document the experience while I work through it.

New investments in me

This week I received a gift for reaching ten years of service with the company. Wanting to be able to use it wisely I decided to invest in myself. I purchased four new books on iPhone,iPad,Mac programming along with two cooking titles, one on baking healthy breads in five minutes and one on making cheese. With our CSA program intending to offer us raw milk later this summer the cheese book should be a good one. I also found a title about achieving happiness through action in life. Along with the programming books, I have been able to acquire a used MacBook so I can have the tools necessary in order to work with the Apple iPhone SDK. I have signed up for the Apple developer program which will give me access to the SDK and give me the ability to add my apps to the apple store (if I get that far). This should be a fun and exciting journey. I will try to post more updates as I make progress.