I explored iPhone dev at about the same time as you. I also had a hard time finding good resources. There's so much to learn that it was intimidating sitting do

I explored iPhone dev at about the same time as you. I also had a hard time finding good resources. There's so much to learn that it was intimidating sitting down and just reading about it. What worked for me was porting simple programs I'd written (in Java) to the iPhone. Java is actually pretty similar to Objective C, and some of it was literally just cut and paste. I imagine C++ is very similar too. At first the programs weren't even visual- they were essentially just command-line programs. That way I could focus on learning the basics of the language before learning all the high-level libraries. Once you get "hello world" working it shouldn't be too hard to build simple programs off of that. Porting an existing program might provide useful structure to your learning if that's your style. Good luck!