Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objective-C). Where to begin?

Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by mkopinsky on Sunday May 06, 2012 @01:24PM (#3935635)

Thanks for the insight re: PhoneGap and native interfaces. Does the same apply to Appcelerator (or similar)? It compiles to native, but does the interface feel native or HTMLy? At some point I want to play around some, but that requires buying a mac and an iThing, neither of which I have yet.

Re: system requirements - that sucks that I really need to have (moderately) up to date hardware to do iOS development. On a PC I'd probably be fine with a 2004 Dell laptop with a fresh install of Windows. I guess this is my first "welcome" to the walled garden.

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Re:Ask HN: Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objectiv... by mikeash on Sunday May 06, 2012 @04:06PM (#3936150)

Reading up on it, Appcelerator gives you native UIs with non-native languages, so it should be much better in that department. I'd still recommend using the real thing, at least to learn.

Macs have changed a lot since 2004. Buy a Mac of that vintage and it's still a PowerPC, no Intel chip. You can run iOS development tools on such a thing, but they will be seriously old.

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