Sure thing! I spent about a couple hours a night at first, just on weekdays really, working on the app and simultaneously working through Treehouse courses. I started Treehouse because I have an idea for a more complicated app, but when I started taking the courses I thought about different ways I could apply what I was learning.

So I took the Crystal Ball course and thought "I should add funny fortunes to my array." About a couple weeks in, I got the idea of having a fortune cookie and started my blank project putting in just a few buttons and labels. Then I got to lessons about having a backend server and thought "This could be a good way to add or subtract fortunes without actually updating the app." Other elements, such as social sharing and having users submit apps came from talking about the idea with friends. Those I learned on YouTube and forums.

Finally I got to the point where I added iAds banner and figured all that out with Googling and YouTube. And then I looked into ways to beta test the app, giving the app to friends wirelessly through a program called Flight Path.

So the whole experience - getting 1,300 points on Treehouse, making my own app, finding new features through research, adding ads, beta testing, and releasing - all took about 1.5 hours per weeknight for about a month and a half.

Again, I had zero experience with Objective-C, and just putting together all the code and images from the ground up only took about two hours (I once built the app from scratch once to try to resolve and issue with beta testing)

So, on to the next project, after taking some more courses.

AWESOME