Where can I get cocoa hands-on training besides WWDC?

Question

I am banging my head against Cocoa and Xcode, and have been for months. It seems I can never get away from textbooks that are often incomplete or Apple developer documentation, which is rarely found on samples. I watched the video, downloaded the source code and asked the developers for help. I still feel like I didn’t get this sound “click” when something falls into place. Maybe I'm too old to learn something new, but I feel pretty productive in .Net!

Are there any personal training programs for Cocoa programming? Are there any resources that I'm missing? Groups of users that I don’t know about?

I'm in Dallas, Texas, but I will be happy to fly anywhere in the United States to get real training!

EDIT 1:

The biggest problem I encountered was the bindings between Interface Builder and Xcode. I don’t want to lose the IB performance benefits, but I followed the steps below to use the GUI tool. The nomenclature (“File Owner”, “Reference Information”) is alien to me, and I would like someone to literally sit behind me and explain step by step what I am doing and why. I feel like I am constantly busy with the load, and between them every time I sit down on my Mac, I console everything that I learned.

Answer 1

Big Nerd Ranch.

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- iPhone Stanford:

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Now I am here (and many others are better than me) are ready to answer any question that we can.

A good book can also be useful. I recommend Aaron Hillegass (Big Nerd Ranch) "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS-X". This gives a real deep understanding, in addition to the transition from sample to sample.