fredrp@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry) (03/30/91)
Hi,
As a programmer, I'm new to the Macintosh. Can anyone receommend one
or two good books to get me started? I know about Inside Macintosh, which
at five volumes seems a bit daunting. Something with many examples would
help. Also, I prefer C to Pascal.
I've started toying around with ProtoTyper and THINK C. What do you folks
think of these? THINK C has its own method for creating an interface, called
its "class library". If I use this, I'll be tied to THINK C for life, is
that correct?
Thanks in advance,
Fred
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**********************************************map@u02.svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters) (03/30/91)
fredrp@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry) writes: >As a programmer, I'm new to the Macintosh. Can anyone receommend one >or two good books to get me started? I know about Inside Macintosh, which >at five volumes seems a bit daunting. Something with many examples would >help. Also, I prefer C to Pascal. An excellent book is "The Macintosh programming primer" by S. Knaster (I think - if you need the author's name let me know and I'll look at my copy). This uses the THINK C environment for all its examples, although it doesn't use the Object-Oriented features. An okay book is "The Macintosh Revealed," which is actually a series of books. BTW, you're gonna have to have Inside Macintosh anyway if you're going to do any serious programming, so if you can afford it, get it sooner rather than later. >I've started toying around with ProtoTyper and THINK C. What do you folks >think of these? THINK C has its own method for creating an interface, called >its "class library". If I use this, I'll be tied to THINK C for life, is >that correct? THINK C is the best development environment for small to medium sized projects by one person. For large projects involving more than one person, MPW is the way to go. MPW isn't nearly as easy to use as THINK C, but it has everything you'll ever need, and then some. I don't know much about ProtoTyper, but I do know about another interface builder called AppMaker from Bowers Development Corp. AppMaker is excellent! It would be much harder for me to learn the Mac, C, and Object-Oriented programming without AppMaker. My professional experience was with a superset of Pascal, so being able to use AppMaker to generate both C and Pascal versions (standard OR Object-Oriented) of an interface is great. AppMaker also generates code for MPW (C or Pascal) and A/UX C. I've heard many people say that AppMaker is superior to ProtoTyper, but I don't have the first-hand knowledge required to judge. -- Mark A. Peters ****** ====================== Control Data Corporation ****** == "What a save!!!" == Internet: map@svl.cdc.com ****** == "What an idea!!" ==
drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze) (03/31/91)
In article <1488@sud509.ed.ray.com> fredrp@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry) writes: >Hi, > >As a programmer, I'm new to the Macintosh. Can anyone receommend one >or two good books to get me started? I know about Inside Macintosh, which >at five volumes seems a bit daunting. Something with many examples would >help. Also, I prefer C to Pascal. > >I've started toying around with ProtoTyper and THINK C. What do you folks >think of these? THINK C has its own method for creating an interface, called >its "class library". If I use this, I'll be tied to THINK C for life, is >that correct? > >Thanks in advance, >Fred Well, I'm also learning to program the Mac (and I'm using THINK C). A fantas- tic book that I came across is "Using the Macintosh Toolbox With C" by Huxham, Burnard, and Takatsuka. It takes you through the toolbox step-by-step with both code examples and full-fledged applications to show you what to do. I'm no programmer (I'm teaching myself how to program C), and this book is even a huge help to me--that's how well it's written. FYI, its ISBN # is 0-895888-572-7, and it costs US $29.95. I picked it up at my local B Dalton. Peace and Long Life, Doug internet: drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu Delphi: drenze PS, if the authors happen to read this newsgroup or if anybody happens to know them, please pass on my appreciation for writing such a fantastic manual!