Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2006

These two links should be of interest to you:

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaBooks
http://brok3n.org/cocoa.html

This experience should be generally helpful. All of the C stdlib and POSIX
stuff you know will transfer directly (although Cocoa frequently has its
own way of doing things, nothing stops you from mixing and matching as you
choose). Be careful if you have any X11 experience, as OS X's GUI is
totally related to X11 and nothing is even remotely similar. Also be
careful with your Java experience and transferring OO concepts to ObjC;
you're in a much better position than a C++ programmer would be, but there
are certain things that are difficult or nearly impossible in Java which
are extremely easy in ObjC and which Cocoa takes great advantage of. As
long as you realize that it really is a different language and not just a
different syntax, you should be all set.

Welcome to the Mac!

I have a few of them but I mostly use
Cocoa Programming By: Scott Anguish, Erik M. Buck, Donald A. Yacktman
http://www.cocoaprogramming.net/
It is a good book, Objective-C is covered enough for those who know C.
This book in combination with the Apple documentation is what you need,
in my opinion, to get you a long way.
AppKiDo is a very useful application for getting info on the various
classes.

If you are looking for a book about XCode 2 make sure you don't waste
your money on "The Mac Xcode 2 book" by Michael Cohen and Dennis Cohen.
No doubt they had a lot of fun writing this book but for a user it is
useless. It's more like a bad comedy and hard to find something useful
in it. (my opinion)

Yvo