Buzztouch is a fantastic creation, and I realize that decades of research and development brought us to the point where a guy like me can now tinker with iPhone apps. I want to do some outside reading on the subject and would appreciate any input. The last time I did any programming was about 30 years ago when I was in the 8th grade. BASIC was the language. Thanks-Mike

There's two approaches to learning how to program on the iPhone. Most of the books out there start with creating a "Hello World" app using Interface Builder, and slowly introduce you to coding. If that kind of intuitive approach suits you well, look at the books by Apress. The other approach (the one that worked better for me) is to start with learning the code - that is, objective-C. Since Buzztouch plugins are mostly created using code and not Interface Builder, this approach might be better if you're learning while looking at a Buzztouch project. "Programming in Objective-C" by Stephen Kochan is a good choice here.

I recommend David Book. Frogman

Frogman, that's a classic :) for Xcode, I like Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa books. Otherwise, I google a LOT. Cheers! -- Smug

Yeah - I found once I got the basics down after reading the book I mentioned above, Google opened many doors to me. But before I tried using a textbook to learn this stuff, online solutions just confused the heck out of me. Back then it was a lot of 'voodoo coding' - I could perform "monkey see monkey do", but as soon as a bug happened I was in trouble. Glad I passed that part of the learning curve a while ago!

Thanks guys. I'll take all the advice I can get.

ha ha @Frogman got it in one! For this business, you only need one Book and that’s David, Buzztouch’s founder and chief bottle washer, as he calls himself! Mike, once you start using the BT platform, (you could start by just playing around on it), the best reading material is the forum here. Just type in the topics you want to find out about in the advanced search and read what people are saying. There’s tons of how to’s as well, which provide a lot of reading material, not to mention the various tutorials in the Buzztouch U which I see you have taken some of already. If you like watching tutorials on YouTube and are looking for something more generic, I really got a lot out of the CS106a Stanford University tutorials. They’re general programming methodology lectures given by a brilliant professor, Mehran Sahami who really makes you want to learn. Best of luck and welcome to Buzztouch!