Learn to develop iPhone/Facebook applications?

[Rg A]

I am 15, 16 in a few weeks and I am very interested in learning how to develop and create either iPhone or Facebook applications. Not both at the same time, I will focus on one and just one, I just want a choice

I am not computer dumb, by the age of 12/13 I had already learned bit of C++, Perl, MySql and maybe a little bit of Java. I know HTML and PHP from my website building and basic web tools.

I would just like information thrown at me, if its 5000 pages long, so be it. I love computing, I really do nothing but it and I think "What the heck, if im going to learn it now or later, its going to do me favours earlier in life to learn whilst im younger".

So if anyone could give links to pages, websites, programs etc that will help me learn to develop either iPhone or Facebook applications. Preferably iPhone considering I use mine 24/7 but the same for Facebook too.

I know it isn't going to be a quick learn, so I am prepared for months to years of learning to get really good, as well as summer term coming up, it should give me lots of time.

[niiro13]

Well, if you know some programming already, then that's great! iPhone programming is done in Objective-C, which is basically C with the object-oriented concept thrown in. It works hand in hand with C, so you can still create C arrays if you wanted to (and of course OpenGL is still done in C as well as SQLite and OpenAL).

For the most part, since you know a lot more than I knew when I started programming, then I don't think you need a book or anything. Just jump right into the Apple SDK and follow the documentation. That's all I used when I learned (especially since I learned when the 2.0 SDK was in beta which meant legally there weren't any books). Apple provides tutorials, sample applications, and of course the core API documentation.

Facebook is a bit easier since you know more web and server development, but of course it is definitely more limited.