My parents are selling the house I grew up in, which means I’m getting to rediscover so many things from my childhood

Remember learning how to code from books??

@rileytestut ”Tackling iPhone SDK 3” 🥹

@rileytestut I remember books!

@rileytestut I’m sorry, YOUR CHILDHOOD? DID YOU JUST CALL ALL OF US OLD?

@rileytestut Yup.

@Arcticulate my first app was released for iPhoneOS 3.1 😄

@manu if it helps I started pretty young 😆

@stroughtonsmith I used to ask for the latest iOS dev book for Christmas like every year 🤪

@rileytestut Paging @davemark

@donkey @rileytestut Love being a part of your journey!

We were the VERY first of that book format, the one with the yellow stripe on the bottom and the giant piece of fruit in the center. I remember the phone call where they pitched that design to me and Jeff LaMarche. We were wildly against the grapefruit, though it worked out really well.

Why a grapefruit? Cause it's Apple, right?

@davemark Those books led to this book 🙂 Don’t know if you remember this one and how you were kidnapped by monsters to teach them iOS 😛

@f I DO remember that book. Loved it!!!

@davemark Yep 🙂You were the main character. The monsters took you to an alternate reality where they want you to teach them how to code for iOS but in their reality, the iPhone is as big as a cart because their technology isn't good enough to miniaturize everything ... Or something along those lines 😛

Good times!

@davemark @donkey thank you for writing them! I didn’t have any programming experience before reading Beginning iPhone Dev, taught me all the essentials I needed :)

@rileytestut Brought me a lifetime of joy. And you were definitely an early reader, because we changed the name to beginning iOS development as soon as Apple made that change from iPhoneOS to iOS.

@davemark @rileytestut That was you? I bought multiple fruit books. Thank you@@!@@@

@cakemix @rileytestut Cheers!