Books by author: Stephen G. Kochan

I'm learning to develop apps for iOS, and although I've used C here and there over the years, I've never used Objective-C before, so I was hoping to get a firm foundation, which this book delivers. It is aimed at readers with little or no C experience, and it teaches both C and Objective-C at the same time, so for me there was a lot of review. It turns out that Objective-C is a relatively small set of object-oriented syntactic sugar on top of standard C, so if you have a C background and OO experience in another language, it's easy to pick up.

There's very little content here about developing within the Cocoa or Cocoa-Touch frameworks, so it's important to also read another book specifically about iOS development. I'm currently working my way through the "Big Nerd Ranch" book, which is excellent so far.