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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need intro-to-Mac for programmers
Message-ID: <47080@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 14:24:17 GMT
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alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>I have some friends who are struggling with "event driven programming" on
>PCs. They are clever enough to realize that that term is a complete red
>herring, and also clever enough to realize that us Mac types have already
>blazed this trail. So they are looking for some good books on the subject.

>I've thought about this, and the only books I know of assume that you've
>already got this basic concept. Any suggestions?

Addison Wesley has a book called "Programmer's Introduction to the
Macintosh Family" that's actually pretty good, IMHO, at presenting
concepts such as event-driven programming.  It's part of their Apple
documentation library.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"