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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Mac
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Date: 12 Jan 91 06:31:33 GMT
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From article <47996@apple.Apple.COM>, by bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre):
> This is not Apple Official Opinion, except by coincidence.
> 
> You must first -- absolutely must -- join APDA and read their catalog
> and come to understand the many documentation aids you will need
> programming Macintosh.

I don't know about that.  I didn't join APDA until two weeks ago.
All the stuff you listed later in your message can be quite helpful,
I'm sure, but you can also drop a bundle getting some of it.  Inside
Macintosh can be gotten for reasonable cost, the Tech Notes and Human
Interface Notes are free.  Those go a long way.

But what everyone who wants the learn to program the Macintosh needs
(I've harped on this before, so I'll repeat the refrain) is *as much
of other people's source code as you can get your hands on*.

Here again, Apple Sample Source Code is free.  And there's a fair
amount of other stuff on the ftp archives.

That's my two cents.  What do I know?
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu