Brand new, getting started in Mac, iOS programming

Hi, I want to start learning to program Mac and iOS apps. I have no prior programming background and REALLY want to learn. Where is a good place to start learning to program for Mac and iOS? I have bought a couple textbooks and watched some tutorials. Would appreciate any input and help.

Vesper,
you don't need to go too in depth into cocoa development if your goal is to develop Open-GL games.. in fact if you know C/C++ you really don't need to know much Obj-C at all...
There's a book from pangea software here that was recently made free that talks about OpenGL game programming on the mac, it might be worth checking out.
http://www.pangeasoft.net/book/index.html
That book will teach you how to open an opengl window, and you can go from there using free resources. Warning though much of it is slightly advanced.
You certainly don't need Hillegass if you're looking to develop OpenGL games. Hillegass's book is "the" Cocoa book, but almost completely useless when it comes to developing OpenGL games. It would be both a waste of time and money if your interest is games programming. It would actually be more relevant to learn how to program DirectX games on Windows than to study Hillegass's book as there are many books that outline creation of a game engine on that platform, but you will need to adapt things for OpenGL rendering.

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