Books by author: Aaron Hillegass

My team at work has been dabbling in iPhone app development for a couple of years, and I've tested the waters a couple of times myself. This is the first book I've found that does a credible job of introducing an experienced programmer to the world of XCode, Objective-C, and the iOS SDK. The authors make the learning curve gradual through extensive guided hands-on exercises, so this is a not a book to be read through quickly. It probably takes at least two weeks to work through it and absorb the details.

I'm disappointed that there aren't any good books out with any depth on the newer iOS4 features (and I would have appreciated a little more depth here on CoreData), but it looks like The Big Nerd Ranch Guide gives enough basic training for the reader to tackle Apple's documentation and figure it out himself.

I'm looking forward to diving into some code when I get back to work next week.