I recently picked up the Second Edition of Erica Sadun’s “The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook,” that focuses on the iPhone 3.0 SDK.

Now, admittedly, a third edition is now required given that the iPad comes along with SDK 3.2. However, I still feel that completing all 163 recipes outlined in Sadun’s book will bring me from iPhone development amateur to iPhone development expert–and give me a leg up in understanding the next version of the SDK.

So, my goal is to get through all 163 recipes over the remaining 347 days left this year.

Thanks to Julie & Julia for the inspiration on this one.

I’ve written a guest blog over at Technostraddle on the recent iPad announcement, and why you should be very, very excited: The iPad App Revolution: A Look at the Card Up Apple’s Sleeve

There are three main resources I’ve been using to teach myself Objective-C, Cocoa Touch and iPhone programming:

• The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook by Erica Sadun
• The lecture videos from Stanford’s class on iPhone development
• The podcasts available on OS 3.0 from ADC (Apple Developer Connection; only available to registered iPhone developers)

The cookbook is excellent as a reference, and as a human-readable, easy-analogy alternative to the lecture slides.
The class itself holds your hand with their assignments, and I have been slowly builing up my Obj-C development skills through their carefully thought-out assignments.

Finally, the ADC videos provide an excellent window into what iPhone OS 3.0 can do, and code samples to help you start actually doing it.

Now, you may be asking, “that’s all fine and good, but where do the LOLCATS come in?”

SO, you only need look at someone and you can quickly make an assessment if they’re an apple or a PC person.  Apple’s TV marketing depends on it.  But I would like to argue that you need only look at their EDUCATIONAL SLIDE MATERIAL to make the same assessment.

Sure, this isn’t from WWDC, but this is on iTunes to help people understand how to use iPhone OS 3.0.  If I wasn’t a Mac convert before, this truly would have made me a believer:

Brilliant.  Bloody fucking brilliant.