The New Treehouse iOS 6 Foundations Book Launches!

I'd very much recommend anyone serious about learning iOS skip this book. I read through it right when it was released and I was very disappointed with the lack of foundational content and the hurry to topics like Core Data.

The book discusses things like auto layout without mentioning how to programmatically create a constraint, without mentioning priority, and without even discussing that constraints can be used without interface builder. It also has a chapter on using the debugger which fails to even mention the words "stack" or "exception", although a later chapter does mention exceptions as if the user should have some knowledge of what they are.

ARC is noticeably not covered, nor is traditional memory management. If I were a beginner reading this book I would have absolutely no idea how to build an app, and even more frighteningly I don't think I'd have any idea that I had no idea how to build an app.

When will the winners be announced?

Faye Bridge, sorry for bugging you with this, but I am psyched about finding out who the winning ideas are! Any announcements?

Thanks again everyone who took part in the giveaway and shared their great app ideas! After reviewing all of the awesome entries, the following Treehouse students have won a copy of iOS 6 Foundations:

Jerome Garot for his recipe app marketed towards mothers who want to share their creation to their non-traditional computer generation offspring. The app would provide the the option to create a new recipe off the bat, browse past recipes and it would also show one random recipe from yours if you can't decide what you want to eat that day.

Lindsey Campbell for her "baby book" app that would make life more manageable for busy, working parents. The app would allow moms and dads to socially connect to a small network of friends and family and "baby book" their children's growth, including photos, milestones, and more.

Sebastian Nitu for his app to streamline his local transportation system. The app would store the transportation details (hour, route, station coordinates etc). It would then prompt a user for a destination, based on the feedback it would select the nearest station that has a bus for that route. A countdown timer would be displayed that, based on the user's speed would determine if you were going to catch the connexion or the bus. If the time is below 1.5 mins, you would be prompted with an alternative route or the next bus from the same line (depending which one will take you faster to destination).

Congratulations Jerome, Lindsey and Sebastian! You should all have received an email about your copy of iOS 6 Foundations. :)

Exciting! It's awesome to have this resource as part of our dead-tree library!

Woohoo