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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Inside the Macintosh questions
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Date: 9 Oct 89 09:39:42 GMT
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Inside Macintosh ($100 for I, II, IV, V) is very expensive and
nontrivial to digest.  People said to me, "Buy Inside Macintosh.
You'll need it anyway," but I think this is bad advice for a
beginner.  Buy books as you need them, since it's easy to WASTE $200
on macintosh programming books, and still not learn what you need to
know.

I suggest you start with a tutorial.  Here are some decent tutorials:

Programming the Macintosh with TURBO PASCAL, Tom Swan (older)
Programming the Mac with Lightspeed C (or somesuch.  A very recent book).

I have inside mac but haven't used it much.  I mostly used the turbo
pascal book (even though I code with lightspeed C).  The "Macintosh
Revealed" reference manuals (I, II, III, $75), consolidate the Inside
mac manuals and omit some out-of-date information.


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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