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As I've worked through the samples I've begun to put together the elements of what objective-C and Cocoa are. I came at it as a non-programmer with experience years ago in basic and pascal. I've pretty much only done scripting since then.

I found it helpful to run through a introductory book on C just to get a hang of the syntax. This book has really, however, put everything together for me so that now as I go online to various sites I can actually make use of what is there.

The only drawbacks I've had are the errors in code as listed in the book which are annoying as it makes the example not work and I don't always have the knowledge to fix it. The latest updates to the Project Builder actually include some of the examples so that I can compare their working model with the one in the book (eg. Dot View). The second drawback is that as the project builder and interface builder have gone into v.1.1 and later some of their features look different which is a bit confusing at times. However, these drawbacks so far have in a way forced me to dig in and learn more so I haven't found them a problem.

Definitely a good starting point.

Steve Neumann