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From: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
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Subject: Re: Getting started with Mac programming
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Date: 25 Sep 89 23:52:04 GMT
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In article <215@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.UUCP (Eric Pepke) writes:
>In article <11542@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>>You *must* have Inside Mac.  There is no substitute.
>>
>>In my experience, the first volume contains 90% of what I need to
>>know.  Most of the rest is in volume II, and I've hardly used III.
>>Volumes IV and V are more relevant to the SE and the MacII, but I have
>>only a lowly Mac+, so I haven't purchased them.  
>
>There is a lot of information in IV and V for Mac+'s, as well.  You should
>have at least IV.  IMHO the most important things in IV are the List Manager
[etc, etc]

I've said this plenty of times before but here goes anyway:

You can get started using "Macintosh Revealed" volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen
Chericoff.  This is how I got started.  It takes you through the step by
step construction of a simple Text editing program.  The code examples are
in Pascal and source code disks are available.

As you become more advanced, you'll want to get "Inside Mac" volumes 1,4,and 5.
These are the volumes that are at my side when I program.  The X-Ref is good too.

I've found that it's good to take things incrementally and not just jump in
and write a new filesystem  or something as your first project.  
comp.sys.mac.programmer is also good to follow because even if you don't
understand what's being discussed at the moment, it gets stuck in your
head somewhere and this seems to help out when you do finally get around to 
rewriting the operating system.:)

I recommend THINK's Pascal (or, C depending on your religon) as very good
reasonably priced development systems.

I have no connection with Symantec (publishers of THINK Pascal and C)
or Hayden Publishing (the Chernicoff books) except as a satisfied customer.


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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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