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Basic Programming Techniques - Dazed and Confused

Following the Corona tutorials found here I managed to create my first 'Hello World' program and felt pretty good.  On a friends recomendation I'm currently using Sublime Text 2 as my text editor.

After you finish the first tutorial I felt quite powerful, "Wow this is easy".  Only to run directly into a brick wall with the next lesson entitled, 'Basic Programming Tecniques'. Now I'm going to make an educated guess that this is the quick reference page for people with some sort of programming knowledge.  I tried reading this page several times and most of it make no sense.

I've moved onto the next section of the tutorial which seems to be a step by step guide and once again I feel like I'm on track.  I just hope that I'm not suppose to understand everything in Basic Programming Techniques before moving on.

Hello World - learning how to code for iOS from scratch

I've been relatively quiet for quite a long time now.  I've always toyed with the idea of learning how to program but entry barrier has always seems ridiculously high.  I'm currently working in a start up developing and games and its gotten me curious to learn more about programming.  I asked a lead programmer how would someone who has no previous knowledge get started on learning objective C?

His advice was to skip learning C and objective C as it would be quite painful and learn a scripting language such as Lua.  At which point he pointed me in the direction of Corona to get started.  With visions of a light beer in my head I downloaded Corona and got cracking.

The end result is what you see above, I followed the tutorial on the Corona website and managed to build the world famous 'Hello World' program.  Its quite an empowering feeling to achieve such a simple task and its got me thinking, I should probably try blogging my experience.

 Having studiously blogged the last 2 years of my first born son's life, I've come to realize that blogging is a great way to keep track of great things in your life.  Shoulderbutton used to be a brain dump for all the links and thoughts I had bouncing around in my head, but facebook and more recently Google+ seem to be a far more reliable place for that.  

So I'm going to be blogging about my experience as I try to make and launch something on iOS.  I've got not programming experience, I'm a building architect by training (and certification), have experience designing games, and a wife that can help me with graphic design.

I'll try and post my ideas and experience of learning and hopefully will be able to launch something in a years time!