I had a significant break-through while spending the holiday weekend in Toronto with my in-laws, which has considerably altered my plan and given me more positive direction.  After 18 holes of golf on Sunday afternoon, my father-in-law, an experienced entrepreneur and mobile app developer,  basically told me I was wandering in the desert by trying to learn basic beginner’s programming.  As I quickly learned in our drive home, programming defines an extremely vast universe of procedural language, while my interests lie in object-oriented language, such as Objective-C.  At first, I was hesitant to agree since I know my own limitations as a complete novice to programming in general.  However, I also knew that I needed a mentor on this project if I were to succeed in the shortest time possible.  So, I agreed that focusing on one language for the time being made the most sense, and chose iPhone development as the place to start.  As we headed home, he promised me that we would discuss further and he would share some books he used for his latest app, iVideo – available in the Apple App Store. [Read more →]