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You really should own this.
Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
This is the first book you should buy. It has the fundamentals of mac programming and the author actually knows what he is talking about.
The book is not perfect but is still one of the best books on the market. Click the image to purchase from Amazon.
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I like working examples.
The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK
This is less a teaching book and more a book of working examples for the most common pieces of iPhone apps. She breezes over sections and I found that a lot of her “recipes” didn’t seem to build upon each other, but this is my most dog-earred iphone programming book.
Buy it and hold on to it if you don’t know how to program — eventually you’ll want practical examples.
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Well written and covers everything.
iPhone SDK Development
I purchased this book back when it was iPhone SDK 2.0 and they were delivering beta versions of the book. At first I wasn’t too happy with this book but as it went through more and more iterations I became a bigger fan of it. Probably one of the best and most encompassing of the iPhone SDK programming books I have on my desk
It also has the benefit of being for iPhone SDK 3.0+ because the authors didn’t get it published for iPhone SDK 2.0. It was like having two books in one.
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