Craig Dunn recently did a review of a set of books and I've decided to add any books that weren't already listed. Summary by Craig:
Less "reading" in this book - rather than longer explanatory paragraphs the author uses smaller chunks of text interspersed with bullet points, callouts and small and large Objective-C listings. This actually makes it better as a reference book than a front-to-back learning tool - and that makes it more suitable for MonoTouch in my view.
As with the other titles, the initial chapters cover Objective-C concepts like messaging, implementation, protocols, categories and posing(!) which you aren't likely to need as you start out with MonoTouch (although you might return to read about them later, to get your head around more complex examples).
I've used the remainder of the book to 'look up' various things that I want to learn about or need examples of, usually as a backup/alternative to the material that I've found in other books or on the web. It doesn't have the breadth of "Beginning iPhone Dev" nor the easy readability of Erica's stuff, but I have definitely picked up some useful tidbits from this book.


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