Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Day 2 Multi Touch Tutorial

In this tutorial I learned how to create a simple single image view that allows you to zoom-in slightly and then zoom out again by clicking the screen once or twice. The beginning of the tutorial was encouraging and was very well explained. However, half way through the tutorial I realized that whomever wrote this tutorial forgot a few steps and then had to download his source for his application to compare my code and his. If you try to accomplish this tutorial I would recommend that you download the source code as well. I did enjoy the beginning of this tutorial as it does make it pretty simple to create an image view and goes step by step on how to create one. Unfortunately I'm noticing more an more that as I dive into this new market, a lot of tutorials aren't that great as they are half complete.

My goal as I'm still a beginner in this endeavor is to understand the programming and xcode enough that I can create an application without using any tutorials to build it. This is something that I know will take great patience and time to learn as my only programming background is web development.

This tutorial is also helpful with learning how Interface Builder interacts with xcode. It is getting to be more user friendly to me as I'm starting to understand it more and how it interacts with xcode. I can only hope that people will continue to write better tutorials to help those of us that are starting from scratch, or as least pretty close to scratch. If you are wanting to complete this tutorial you can Click Here.

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