Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!piccolo.ecn.purdue.edu!coxr From: coxr@piccolo.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Good Mac Programming Books Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 21:21:09 GMT References: <1991Jun4.174614.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> Sender: root@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (ECN System Management) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 36 dxandy@cs.widener.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS) writes: > I am looking for a good book on Macintosh programming. I already have >Macintosh Revealed vols I, II,and III, How To Write Macintosh Software >and C Programming Techniques for the Macintosh. The last two contain >some useful examples, but you have to wade through an awful lot to pick >them out. Macintosh Revealed is a good reference source, but difficult to >learn from. > The ideal book would be one which gave individual examples of how to >put a window on the screen, play a sound from a resource and so on. There are 2 "Ideal" books then: Macintosh Programming Primer Vol I,II by Dave Mark & Cartwright Reed (I) Addison Wesley Vol I - Has the Basics Drawing, Windows, Event Manager, Dialogs, Using Res Edit to make Resources & Tons of examples - All in Think C Vol II - More advanced techniques - Code Resources, Color QuickDraw, Text Edit, and Object Programming, + tons more Examples a la Think C -Rich Internet: coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (no Snappy signature on this machine, you'll have to imagine a cool one ) >-- >Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS | "We call him Neutron because he`s so positive." >dxandy@cyber.widener.edu | Female scientist in This Island Earth >dxandy@cs.widener.edu | ****** STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY ****** >===============================================================================