17 Days (song) - The Thirty Days Challenge

17 Days (the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose.)" (usually referred to as "17 Days") is one of the most famous of musician Prince's.

17 days left to the first 30 days phase. As you can understand financial support is still needed and its the best way to help me, as i don't have any revenue. I live very difficultly at this moment, I have set this challenge (read first post) to be able to receive all your support. I have sent invitation to all the people i know (around 150) that has the financial potential to support me.

Before i lost my job, every year i walk 24 hours to support canadian cancer foundation and donate to two children foundation:

• Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life (is an opportunity to get together with family and friends and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back in the hope of finding a cure for this terrible disease)
• Canadian Tire JumpStart (gives kids in financial need the opportunity to participate in organized sports and recreational activities)
• Canadian feed the children (The goal is to reduce the impact of poverty on children)
  

I always believed in pay it forward philosophy thats why i give so much in my life. Its not only money, it can be a simple as listening to someone that needs to talk. It reminds me a little adventure, let me tell you;

On 1997 i was passing by a park at night i heard a gun shot, heard a voice asking for help, i run as quickly as i could and made face to face with a man, bumped on him, I excused my self, jump over a fence and found a teenager lying on the grass crying. I ask him where you got shot, he told me in the head, i think and i cant move my legs. The teen was bleeding like hell, I ripped-off my t-shirt and made a compression on the hole. The teenager was holding my hand, begging me to stay and not leave him alone. I stay with him till the ambulance, police and journalist arrived. The journalist asked me if he can publish the story, i have ask him to keep my name anonymous. The day after the article was posted and the police came at my home, told me that i have save his life because of my quick intervention to stop the bleeding. It looks like the man i bumped on was the criminal (the one that shot the teenager). I never received news or saw the teen since he recover after one week intensive care. The teen was lucky, the bullet ricochet on his head to stop course behind his scapula. Doctors were unable to remove the bullet, but he survived.

Now back to the main topic. In my last post i said that I was going to post a video, but i didn't, but will make one today. I just want to tell you, because of my Internet speed when i send a 2 minutes video, it can take up to two and half hours to upload.

Thank you to take the time to read my blog, I'm honored. Like as usual, if you have any constructive criticisms or helpful suggestions that will help, please feel free to post.

One Small Step, One Giant Leap - The Thirty Days Challenge

Well, wow,

Because of all your support i was a able to order the book (Programming in Objective-C, $73), should receive in a few days. I did also buy some essential stuff for study time, here is what i got for $33;

• 1 package, exercise books (For exercising)
• 1 unit, subject note book (For sketching)
• 1 unit, hard cover note book (For ideas)
• 1 package, wood pencils (For easy writing)
• 1 package, page markers (For marking important pages)
• 3 units, 3 colors, highlighter (For marking important paragraph)
• 1 unit, pencil sharpener
• 1 unit, eraser gum

I had the chance to read an sample pages on Internet Programming in Objective-C. Looks really easy to follow. I'm very confident that i will succeed on this challenge.

Just taking the time to tell you all, I'm unemployed, with no source of revenue, donations is a real need. Once the book arrival, i need to exercise and practice. For that its fundamental, to have an adequate development platform, like this very basic device;



Thanks to those of you posting comments. It helps me stay on track and a great source of motivation. If you have any constructive criticisms or helpful suggestions that will help, please feel free to post.

One Step Ahead - The Thirty Days Challenge

Hello,

I want to thank you all for your precious support!

Today have advanced one more step, after googling and asking questions i found a book that seems to fit my current learning needs. It's called Programming in Objective-C. As stated on amazon description "The book makes no assumption about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language. And because of this, both novice and experienced programmers alike can use this book to quickly and effectively learn the fundamentals of Objective-C". The Author of the book is Stephen Kochan. I feel confident with this book, because he is author and co-author of several bestselling books on other languages, also because he has the reputation for easy-to-follow writing.

Shipping and handling with inter country taxes the book cost 73$. I have choose the US version because its the latest errata printed copy. Regrettable the Canadian version was cheaper but not the latest :-(

Received many suggestions and will work on all of them, Will start french video version to open the doors to more audience, i may do a Portuguese version to.

Need to wait receiving the book to get organized on how to template the book in 30 days phases for an effective learning schedule. I have to create day schedule and follow that model every day. I need some suggestions if any of you is a teacher or a current successful student.

Now here is what i currently thinking for the route of things:

• Learn Objective-C, comprehend and exercise
• Read Apple documentations
• Sketch the first application on paper
• Start coding the application
• Complete application and beta testing (Promotion codes will be released for beta testers)
• Fine-tuning for publishing
• Create a publisher name and logo
• Publish the application (If possible will be free - donation supported )
• This will be the time to talk deeply on the main core features, functions and what purpose

Once available on Apple AppStore, will open discussion on possible business model and investors. Here I think we will have a lot of fun :-) Hopefully we will see the future through a new fenestral.

In visual-perspective I'm not yet an egg "may well look like one :-)" after comprehended the book an egg will be born then again i have to work hard to hatch :-)

If you have any constructive criticisms or helpful suggestions that will help, please feel free to post.

VQ

First French video:


Note a la vidéo; J'ai omis de dire pourquoi j'ai besoin de dons. Je suis présentement sans emploi avec aucune source de revenus. Merci

Welcome - The Thirty Days Challenge

Hi everyone,

I have set myself the challenge of making a complete commercial quality iPhone app/game in multi phases. Once its completed it will be submitted to Apple AppStore.

I have no programming knowledge, no art course or any kind of experience on any of the subject to develop an iPhone application. Thats why i call this a challenge.

I hope to document exactly what i will do and how things progress on each 30 days phases on this blog with video posting as often as possible. If any of you is thinking one day, learning and making an iPhone application or game from scratch, then this blog should be the right place to start. Because i will try to document the progress and keep the blog informative as such it can be followed as a future model.

Before i start, let me tell you that I'm unemployed at this time. Economy crisis is hard for unemployed people, because hiring at the moment is avoided, instead laying-off is the course of action to survive the crisis. As you can understand, this is the most worst time ever to lose a job, because to find a new one, its like winning lottery!

I have setup a official paypal donation button on the blog (just at your right) for this challenge. I hope and appreciate that you donate something, anything, because i have no revenue or any kind... nada!!! You can help today by donating because you are helping a real person in real life. (For the donors, i will work on a special greeting place on each application created trough this blog - I'm open to suggestions)

This is going to be fun, because fun is important for creativity and fundamental for learning. I already have a few ideas for a virtual reality app, one 3D game and one killer application. I want to start first coding the application before the games.

Time to get set up… Please see the video below.

If you have any constructive criticisms or helpful suggestions that will help, please feel free to post.

VQ

First English Video: