 | Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $27.24 A solid introduction to Objective C, specifically relating to the use of the Cocoa APIs in Mac OS X.
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 | Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan
Buy used from: $13.50 A general introduction to the Objective C language. Information in this book is not specific to the Mac (or iPhone) platform.
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 | Xcode 3 Unleashed by Fritz Anderson
Buy new: $34.64 / Used from: $28.00 An introduction to Mac development tools.
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 | Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach by Amit Singh
Buy new: $71.19 / Used from: $38.89 Everything you could ever possibly want to know about the Mac operating system.
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 | Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming) by Mark Dalrymple
Buy new: $47.24 / Used from: $28.49 A sequel to the first book on the list, covering more advanced topics. (Be aware that this book is about due for an update. I expect a 3rd edition in 2009.)
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 | Pangea Software's Ultimate Game Programming Guide for Mac OS X by Brian Greenstone
Buy used from: $38.50 Information specifically useful for game development. Excellent, but in need of an update.
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 | Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach by Brad J. Cox
Buy used from: $4.99 This book was written by the creator of the Objective C language, when the paradigm of object oriented programming was a new one. The book will primarily be of interest to programmers interested in the history of Objective C and the theoretical basis for the design choices that went into the creation of the language.
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 | Programming with Quartz: 2D and PDF Graphics in Mac OS X (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by David Gelphman
Buy new: $45.21 / Used from: $45.19 An introduction to Quartz 2D, Mac OS X's two-dimensional graphics rendering API and part of Core Graphics framework. Written by members of the Apple development team responsible for the API, at the time of publication the book was an exhaustive treatment of the subject (but a lot has changed in Core Graphics in the last 2 years).
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 | iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone by Jonathan Zdziarski
Buy used from: $6.47 The iPhone SDK (beta!) is brand new, and this book is due to be published less than 2 weeks after its release. I suspect the book is a rush job and will have very little information about the iPhone SDK or the Cocoa Touch APIs. Learn Cocoa through one of the other books listed above, and learn iPhone specifics from Apple's documentation.
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 | Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish
Buy used from: $28.10 Another book on Cocoa. Less popular and harder to find, but well liked.
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 | Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide by Simson Garfinkel
Buy new: $57.48 / Used from: $1.48 Another O'Reilly introduction to Cocoa programming, but with a more practical emphasis. Accessible even to total beginners, but unfortunately, somewhat outdated.
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 | Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition by James Duncan Davidson
Buy used from: $5.58 An alternative introduction to Objective C and Cocoa.
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 | Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X(R) Developers by R. Scott Thompson
Buy new: $40.14 / Used from: $25.06 A more cursory introduction to Quartz 2D. Also cheaper.
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 | Cocoa in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by Michael Beam
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $4.98 The O'Reilly Cocoa reference book.
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 | Objective-C Pocket Reference by Andrew Duncan
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.16 The O'Reilly quick reference guide.
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 | Beginning Xcode (Programmer to Programmer) by James Bucanek
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $3.30 An alternative introduction to Xcode.
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