How to get started with Cocoa application development?

Question

I'm a Java guy who is familiar with Swing programming and recently just started out with iPhone programming. Boy the learning curve was steep and now I would like to start Cocoa development for desktop apps.

I've been reading on articles and considering buying few cocoa book to advance my learning, still I feel I don't fully get it yet. I started about 3 months back and pretty comfortable with XCode and Objective-C but developing cocoa for desktop apps looks like a different game from iPhone development.

My questions are:

1. Suitable book to pick up and learn from.
2. What blogs I should follow?
3. Any code example I should look at to learn from.

I've been looking at Adium src and considering buying Cocoa Programming 3rd but the book looks like bunch of stuff I already kinda know.

Answer 1

Suitable book to pick up and learn from.

• Aaron Hillegass - Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

What blogs I should follow?

• Scott Stevenson
• Wil Shipley
• Cocoa is my girlfriend

Any code example I should look at to learn from.

• Apple's Currency Converter tutorial
• Apple's Currency Converter tutorial with cocoa bindings

EDIT: There is already a comprehensive list here on SO: Good ways to Learn Cocoa?

Answer 2

Our CocoaHeads group has a really large list of resources:

http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources

If you're looking for books, check out: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/book

Or blogs: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/blog

Or tutorials: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/tutorial

Or sample code: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/sample-code

etc