Learning Carbon

This is the perfect book to get if you want to get started programming the Mac (OS X or OS 9). The Mac has two API's, Cocoa and Carbon. There is absolutely no difference in your application's performance when it comes to these two API's because they are based on the same internal code for OS X (Darwin). If you want to learn Cocoa, don't waste your money on the "Learning Cocoa" book, just go to Apple's online documentation and do the tutorials (they're the same as the book!).

Along with Apples own Inside Mac Os X series, which can be downloaded from their website as pdfs, Learning Carbon is THE essential guide to learn, understand and most of all program in Carbon.It contain many tutorials you can follow to build your own project, and it's really fun too! Let's just hope that they'll release more books about programming Carbon/Cocoa, and some books about C,C++ and Java, so we REALLY can program well!