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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Any recommendations for books about programming C on the Macintosh?
Keywords: C Macintosh books
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Date: 2 Dec 88 17:52:35 GMT
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>Just got the latest APDAlog, and was wandering through the book section.
>Noticed a few books on learning to program the Macintosh for C programmers,
>specifically C PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MACINTOSH by Schilke &
>Mednieks (1986, Sybex)

>I have the Takatsuka, Huxham and Burnard USING THE MACINTOSH TOOLBOX WITH C,
>and outside of its pre-HFS publishing date and the use of Consulair C, I'm
>very satisfied with it.  I'm curious how the Schilke & Mednieks book stacks
>up to this.

When I'm coding (not often anymore, sigh) I use Takatsuka. It's a better
book than Mednieks, although I keep both handy and find that there are
places where I'll pull out the Mednieks book to look something up because
it's easier to find there (this is primarily a case of each index having
different strengths and weaknesses). I find them to be pretty complimentary
to each other, frankly.

What I'd *really* like to see, and I don't see why someone hasn't done it by
now, is a good C book based in LSC. It doesn't exist (that I've found). If
they were to update Takatsuka for the new toys and convert it to LSC, I'd
bet it'd give Danny Goodman's books a run for the money in the best seller
lists.

Now, how to convince the publishers we don't *need* the 39th HyperCard book
and get them to publish some real programming book instead. 

>; and the new 2nd Edition of Knaster's HOW TO WRITE
>MACINTOSH SOFTWARE, which is advertised as having an expanded section on C
>programming -- anyone had a chance to compare the two?

I've heard that the revisions primarily have to do with libing happily
under multifinder, but I could be wrong. I haven't had a chance to go
browsing recently....

[Disclaimer time: you'll notice my name in the acknowledgements for the 
 Mednieks book. For what it's worth....]


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