Question by STARZ: Question For Developers?
What is the best book to buy for someone who wants to learn how to develop applications for iPhone,iTunes, and the iPad (books mainly on iPhone SDK), and is also a beginner developer. Thank-You. So basically what is the best book that teaches you how to use iPhone SDK.
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Answer by Lee
I wouldn’t recommend any books over existing online documentation which are much more detailed and convenient. But assuming that you are looking for the traditional toolchain, I would “recommend” the following books:
Programming in Objective-C 2.0 – http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-Stephen-Kochan/dp/0321566157/ref=dp_cp_ob_b_title_0
Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK – http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring-SDK/dp/1430224592/ref=dp_cp_ob_b_title_1
The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK – http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Developers-Cookbook-Building-Applications/dp/0321659570/ref=pd_sim_b_4
The first book gives an extremely well written introductory course over Objective-C (which includes many elements that do not follow traditional programming paradigms) while the latter two are basically generic “how to build cocoa apps” types of books.
Additionally, I would recommend http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf as a supplement to the first book in terms of helping you understanding the language behind the toolchain.
For a comprehensive reference/learning resource, use http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action
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