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Objective-C-Cocoa book recommendation for an AS3 developer.

Hi Just looking for more recommendations for great Ojective-C-Cocoa books. My ideal book would be one with actual hands-on walk thru examples increasing in complexity and doesn't spend unnecessary time on basic OOP. Trying to leverage what knowledge I DO have in Actionscript 3. (or maybe its all about unlearning?)

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Objective-C is pretty different than AS3, especially with the way Cocoa handles events. If your target is the iPhone platform I had success with Beginning iPhone 3 Development :Exploring the iPhone SDK:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring-SDK/dp/1430224592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263598426&sr=8-1

One nicety of learning Objective-C/Cocoa/CocoaTouch is code seems to be very portable between the iPhone and Mac platforms, wire up a new GUI and go.

Apple has some resources available at http://developer.apple.com , I cannot however attest to their value.

mynameiscoffey  2010-01-15 23:36:42
I learnt Objective-C and the iPhone SDK with this book. Highly recommended.
Allan  2010-01-16 09:28:14

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