from JS to iphone dev - what's the best language to start with?

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Published on 2010-05-28T18:42:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 18:52 UTC
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I am a total beginner and would like to eventually learn to develop for the iphone.

I have just done a beginner's CS course where the language we learned was JavaScript. We studied basic concepts like: variables, arrays, loops (for,while,if,if..else..), properties and functions.

I'm wondering if I am starting in the right/wrong place by following this book: Learn C on the Mac by Dave Mark?

I have read a few chapters and am finding it a bit hard to get my head around the way that C works, for example the way that Strings are printed seems overly complicated as compared to JS.

Do you think that JS was the wrong language to start off with and would I be better to go from JS straight to Objective-C rather than to C?

I have tried to read up on previous threads on the merits/demerits of learning C first but haven't found any that relate JS to learning C/Obj C/ Cocoa.

Any advice appreciated as I am very new to this.

Thanks

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