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I've used the Beginning iPhone 4 Development book too and I've found it excellent.

Also I used the iPhone development course from Stanford on iTunes U, which is quite comprehensive (these guys will be pretty much competing with this series, which is top notch and also free):

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios-...

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It will be hard to compete with the free Stanford courses. Especially since the sample looks like it's almost the same format.

It would be better to go the Peepcode route and have ala carte mini videos about specific tasks. How to make a digital photo filter, how to get CoreData working with iCloud, how to make a complicated UI, etc. There are a lot of materials out there about beginning iOS development. There are not very many materials about intermediate-advanced iOS development.

The other option would be to really amp up the production values. All video lessons I've seen, including the Stanford ones, are simply too slow. I usually watch them in 2x speed. The other problem is that the Xcode view is never optimized. It's always slightly difficult to see the text. Much moreso if you are watching it on an external TV set.

The Standford course ain't updated for new iOS 5 features, more over they have not put the fall'11 class on iTunes for public :(

Thanks for the mention of the Stanford courses: I just watched the first one, in which Paul Hegarty explains iOS' interpretation of the MVC pattern (including iOS-specific terms like 'outlet', 'delegate', 'target', 'action' etc., which are used in Interface Builder and XCode).

His slides are awesome too. He uses my favourite font: Comic Sans MS ;-)

I've found the font a bit too distracting, but the content is definitely good :)

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