Following Russ' comments about how Symbian OS made developing so hard, Steve reviews the "Mobile Phone Programming" DVD (http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/review2.php?id=203). You'll have "Hello world" up and running in an hour, but you'll need C++ experience to go further!

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Again with the C++ Mastership required. What about all of us home programmers that just want to potter around with things without laying out £££££ for CodeWarrior or it's Mac equivalent?

There are free tools. The Symbian SDKs are free. There's also a free version of Borland C++ Builder or BuilderX for Symbian/Series 60 development (Microsoft Visual Studio or CodeWarrior cost something). You can also use Eclipse and only command line tools without Borland/Microsoft/CodeWarrior at all, but then you'll unfortunately not have a PC based emulator, but must test always using a phone.

There are also a bunch of free tutorials, white papers, code examples, etc., which you find on http://www.newlc.com, http://www.symbian.com/developer, http://forum.nokia.com/symbian, etc.

but then you'll unfortunately not have a PC based emulator, but must test always using a phone.

This isn't a bad thing. Admittedly I've been working in OPL, but I do all my testing on the target device. Nothing that says you have to compile for WINS.....

8-)

Steve Litchfield

It's starting to look like OPL is the way forward for me, given that I'm using a Mac. Can someone point me in the direction of an OPL kit for the 9300?

Read this post to get you started:
http://www.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=opldevelopment&showtopic=11

Links to other resources:
http://www.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=opldevelopment&showtopic=3
http://www.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=opldevelopment&showtopic=4