New to Programming, XCode 2.5 vs 3.0 and finding good examples

FROM : Daryl
DATE : Wed Nov 07 06:58:25 2007

Hello,

I am new to non scripting programming and I want to dive into 
objective C and cocoa.  I am reading Steven Kochan's book but I find 
the examples to be useless when trying to create anything useful.  I 
am looking for some good tutorials that can walk me though learning 
interface builder and using NStask.  I have a strong unix background 
and I want to create an app that uses command line tools like dd and 
such to experiment with cocoa.  I keep finding the Interface builder 
3.0 to be very different than the examples I find that were written 
before hand.  Things likehttp://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.04/ShellGame/index.html
  where it says "click the Classes tab, select NSObject, and press 
return to create a subclass." and "click the Actions tab, then click 
Add to create an action named doCommand."  These examples don't seem 
to work in Interface builder 3.0.  I need advise, I am having 
problems finding current examples and most of the ADC documentation is 
way over my head.  I learn from pulling open source apps apart but 
most of the nib files and such are already constructed and I have no 
idea how they got there.  If anyone could point me in the right 
direction it would be amazing.  thank you.

-Daryl