There are so many apps at the App Store right now. Some of them are almost perfect, some are a waste of money, others are free. Is the App Store overflooded?

As far as I can tell it is, and by the time Apple’s Big Conference takes place (which is very soon), over 50 000 apps will be available all and all! That’s a huge number, and the real problem becomes not just to write a great app, but to market it, promote it, deliver it to the right audience. Why am I that concerned?

I’m going to become an iPhone developer. By the end of this summer, I’m planning on learning the C programming language, then Objective-C, and then Cocoa implementation. Along with the self-education, I’m going to set up a company, get enrolled with the Apple Developer Program, and get my app approved.

Is it enough of a goal for the next three months? I believe so! To follow along with the quest, visit www.SimpleBeat.com, it’s the blog I’m writing on this specific topic. And by the way, you’ve guessed it right: Simple Beat is the name of my company!

I am still learning C, and still trying to get a full grip on functions! Even though my understanding is getting clearer with each program I write, the ease of implementation has not come yet. I believe, this would take a few more sample tasks to complete.

Some sad news. My teeth hurt badly, and I’m to go to a dentist. The problem is that it feels like there are too many teeth infected, and this whole thing would probably last for some long time…

This time around my learning curve of C programming language got flat. For a while. My main concern was the topic of Functions. The syntax and implementation of the Functions in C are quite different from what I used to be familiar with, and that made me somewhat goofy.

It was two days later when I’ve finally managed to get used to the new logic and rules. Now I’d say it all makes sense.

Another ’surprise’ came from xCode. The environment is still new to me, and sometimes when something wrong happens with my program, or within the IDE itself, I have hard and long time figuring out how to fix it. Today’s challenge was to make the compiled app run in the Terminal window. Somehow I’ve managed to restore associations, and execute the exercise.

It took a long evening to finish and polish my C exercise. The task was to create a program, that would count lengths of words in a text, and then show a histogram of those lengths (how many 1-letter words, 2-letter words, … 20-letter words, and so on).

I’ve enjoyed programming this task, even though it was hard. The most difficult part was to draw the actual histogram right. Some three hours later I’ve finally figured out the right algorithm! The polishing part began. After another half an hour my program could actually do a simple analysis of any given text, according to the task.

  Another great thing, that occurred to me just today was the name for my first yet-to-be-written iPhone app. Sorry, folks, but I’m going to hold this off one for a while, just to take care of corresponding domain names!

And the last thing. I’m currently enjoying the new apps for the Mini. The results of this enjoyment you can see right away. The app is called ‘Picturesque’, and all the images of this post were made by this remarkable little image manipulator!