[pbjorklund]

This caught my eye "After pushing through a handful of the excellent 193P Stanford iTunes tutorials, I got a bit frustrated from not working directly on my product, so I just fired up xcode and began to develop it and worked out how to do things along the way."

I tend to pick up a book on subject X from time to time and getting bored after a while just repeating code. Fear of jumping in and doing things "the wrong way" is probably the reason. I tell myself that im going to come back to it; and never do.

Do anyone else have any experience on the subject? I have a nagging feeling that this is how most people actually ship product and would love some input.

(Now if this is to much off-topic, let's just downvote this)

[espinchi]

It's better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all.

Jump into it. If whatever you build is successful (under whatever metrics that may apply), you can always consider some refactoring once you know better.

[plasma]

> Jump into it. If whatever you build is successful (under whatever metrics that may apply), you can always consider some refactoring once you know better.

Definitely, and that's what I meant by getting frustrated and just wanting to get started.

I've got a product out the door now, this wouldn't be the case if I didn't start sooner.

I've been a developer for a while, I've learned to push through and realise that it wont always be the best the first time around (especially with new software). I've already learned a lot just building the iOS version, so the next app I decide to make would be better. Rinse repeat :)