I'm not really a programmer (developer) however I have programmed professionally off an on for over fifteen years.  I started with LOGO and BASIC as a kid.  During college I had proper courses in FORTRAN.  Since then I've programmed primarily in VB and C#.

There are a few little utilities I'd like to whip up for the Mac, so I installed XCode.  Wow, this world is really different.  At quick glance things looked similar:

• there are GUI widgets that you drag and drop onto your forms
• project templates start you off with the right kinds of files
• heck it even creates your menu for you, and populates it with most of the basic stuff you need

But the similarities end there.  I've been trying to read several cocoa sites, however I think its time for a book.  If you can recommend a Cocoa/XCode/Objective-C book geared towards beginners, I'd love to hear from you.