Beginner in XCode and want to know the best way to learn how to make apps

There is no best place or best way. Every person learns things in different ways. Some can read a book

and be fluent. Others require hands on experience and still others only learn by trying and failing.

If you are virgin to coding, you need to start small and learn small things. Build on each small thing and

you will eventually, if you stick with it, be able to develop ever more complex apps. There are no

shortcuts.

I liked SAMS Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours.

Find an Apple sample app related to a technology you are interested in.

Download the sample app which will be a small Xcode project.

Study how that is built - its resouces, shared library dependencies and build settings.

That will show how Xcode is used to create a full project

Remember - in the Dev Center you have the docs, guides and sample apps.

Study sample code for implementation examples of (iOS ?) features. Each sample code project is a build-able and executable source example of how to accomplish a task for a specific technology. They show the correct sequence of calls and parameter data types to provide a generalized method for API use that developers can modify for their specific needs. Sample code is typically intended to show programming techniques and illustrate use of technology rather than suggest user interface designs (that's what the Human Interface Guidelines are for). Study the readme with each sample and don't forget to check the comments in each file.

If there are samples you would like to see to illustrate particular technologies or techniques that are not covered by existing samples, feel free to file a bug report...link is below right.

If you want an understanding of how everything fits together, as noted, you should read one of the associated Guides.

As for Swift, it is still early, so don't let an evolving landscape trip you up. You'll need to be eyes-open and able to discern on your own, at least for the next year or so, I think.

But - when it comes to help with Xcode itself, be sure to consult it's Help menu.

Xcode is just a tool used to write and debug apps. You really need to start by learning the programming language apps are written in (primarily Objective-C, but Swift is making some inroads).

I`ve just started coding like you and my way to learn coding was to first get used with the syntax of swift. For this reasen I downloaded "Swifty" from the AppStore. Then I often tried out things, searched projects at github and watched tutorials. When you have done the first step you won`t be able to stop learning coding.

Good luck 😉