The Mac Xcode 2 book

About this book

But, some 20 years into the Macintosh era, things have gotten better... not that you don't need to learn a bunch of stuff (hey, if programming were easy, everyone would be doing it), but the programming environment is cheap (free, in fact, which is at the lower limit of cheap), and the documentation, instead of bowing your bookshelves, is now at your fingertips as you code.