Manton Reece on iPad Software Development

April 19, 2010

Manton Reece: New iPad hackers:

Manton compares the barrier (cost) of entry into programming when he was young with iPhone and iPad development.

I started programming for the Mac with THINK Pascal, a beautiful little development environment. Then I moved to C with Dave Mark’s book, which came with a C compiler on a floppy inside the back cover. Eventually I saved up and bought Symantec C++. Even at an educational discount these were expensive compared to the free Xcode of today.

Didn’t seem to stop him.