Objective C (OT)

I'm going to be teaching a young girl how to program a computer this
summer, and I've been thinking about likely candidates for a starter
language..

I've about settled on Objective C, primarily because of its use in
mobile apps, but secondarily because I don't know it and would like to
learn a little something about it. (The other two I thought about were
JavaScript and Python).

Two quick questions:

1. What's the 'best' reasonably priced book that's strong on the
basics and not too technical?

2. Is there any real good reason not to start off a young girl on this
language? My main goal is to show how source code turns into an
executable on a computer -- I don't want to get bogged down into heavy
duty stuff.

Thanks, CC.
.

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