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From: 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Questions for developer type people
Message-ID: <1991May11.144356.30637@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 19:43:56 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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This summer I want to get started in development for the Mac.  I've called
Apple about APDA and they're sending me the application and all that jazz (I'm
supposed to get it next week).  In any case, I am quite clueless as to how to
get started otherwise.  I have a brief discription of what kind of stuff I want
to do because I know, especially with Apple computers, that different tools
work better for different jobs.   I will most likely be programming on a IIsi,
but I may have to move to an SE on occasion.

The type of programming I will be getting into will involve the display of
several pictures out of a choice of hundreds, with text discriptions (e.g., one
might pull out the file on a certain type of guacamole and find the recipe). 
It will also involve very application specific spreasheet-type features where
the equations involve objects rather than numbers.  Something in the order of
applying different sized air-conditioners to varying sized homes to find the
best match.  (I'm really steering away from the specific applications I'm
working on.)

Now, there are several things I need to know before I can really get started.

1)  Will I need to buy the Toolbox Refs?  (I'm familiar with using the Toolbox,
but I understand the Refs cost a lot of $$$$$)

2)  What kinds of things do I need to worry about for programs that work in
both b/w and color (for the newer and older macs).  Are there good reference
materials around that would help?

3)  What kinds books/source codes exist out there that would help me with the
types of applications I'll be working on?  (i.e., loading and saving pictures,
storing formulas, and that sort of thing.)  

4)  Are there any good Magazines that are dedicated specifically to Mac
programming?

5)  What are good compilers for what I intend to do?  I was planning on using
MPW, but probably not if I'd have to buy the TBRs  (I'm not that financially
endowed at the moment).

6)  Is this the right place to post his?  If not, a reply that just says "No"
will suffice  :)
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