mac and iphone development books 2009 [closed]

Answer 1

You might want to consider some of these: http://cocoaheads.byu.edu/resources/book

Answer 2

These two books were good:

• iPhone SDK Application Development
• iPhone In Action

The Apple online docs are actually pretty good too:

• http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

I'd stay away from this one, I didn't think it was very good:

• Programming in Objective C

Answer 3

The iPhone SDK Development looks very nice. I did not read it, but read a lot promising about it on the blog of one of the authors, Chris Adamson. The blog itself is very good reading for everybody interested in iPhone sound programming.

Answer 4

In this order:

• Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (The Bible)
• Beginning iPhone Development (Long-winded but great for beginners)
• iPhone SDK Development (Starts nicely, but gets a little too deep too fast. Still in beta)
• Programming in Objective-C (Only down so far because I couldn't get through the first few chapters. Recommended by many, good for total programming beginners)
• iPhone Cookbook (Full of mistakes, but good for learning stuff closer to the code)
• iPhone in Action (I didn't learn anything from this book. Might be good for programming for Mobile Safari)
• Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (Avoid)

This is mainly an iPhone list, but several are more general books.