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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beginning Mac Programing
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Date: 24 Feb 88 08:57:04 GMT
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In article <8W8QYby00Xc5AFE04R@andrew.cmu.edu> mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Asher Weissman) writes:
>
>	A few people on the net have mentioned that they would like to
>start programing with there Macs.  First a word of warning:
>
>	IT IS GOING TO COST A RESPECTABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY
>
>	The above should read ( about $200 + ).  The first thing all
>Mac programmers need is Inside Macintosh I-V ( yep that's right, all
>FIVE volumes costing between $20 and $27 each )  These tomes will in
>NO way teach you to program the Mac, it will simply tell you the routines
>and how to access them.
>	To actually learn programing on the Mac, there is a new book
>out (part of the Addison Wesley Mac Library) called "Programmers intro-
>duction to the Macintosh Family"  This appears quite good, and explains
>how the Mac memory map is used as well as all sorts of other specific
>Mac info.

  If you're absolutely strapped for money my recommendation is:
  Vol 3 or Inside mac DA from sumex. Lightspeed C or LightSpeed Pascal.
 Programmers intro to the mac. you can go without 1,2,4,5 because vol 3
has a summary of the previous volumes at the end. vol 5 isn't really ness 
unless you have a mac2 or are writing cdevs. vol 4 is only useful if you 
want to know about HFS or the list manager.
  You need the intro so you have some idea about how the mac works.
 Pierce Wetter
Every 4 seconds a woman has a baby.  Our problem is to find this woman
and stop her.

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