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here are some resources I've compiled during my time trying to learn how OS X operates. These are mostly oriented toward systems-level OS X stuff and programming for OS X (pronounced "OhEs Ten", not "OhEs Ecks").

  1. Mac OS X Internals, A Systems Approach by Amit Singh

pretty much THE best and only OS X internals book out there. Buy this if you are doing any real digging into OS X.

  1. CocoaDevCentral.com and Cocoadev.com - great sites for starting out and learning Objective C and Cocoa. Once you get some Obj-C under your belt, check #3 out - it's a reference for the Objective-C language.

  2. The Objective-C Programming Language

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf

great, free reference, but it's better to read this after reading the above sites and fooling around. It's kind of dry.

  1. kernelthread.com - by Amit Singh. equivalent to Sysinternals writings for Windows or Linux Kernel Mailing List for Linux.
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