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From: dtw@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Duane Williams)
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Subject: Re: Beginning Mac Programing
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Date: 27 Feb 88 05:00:32 GMT
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I read Macintosh Revealed after reading most of Inside Macintosh, vols. 1-2,
and after developing a basic skeleton Mac program.  I didn't feel that I
learned much from Macintosh Revealed, and it was clear to me that it was no
substitute (as a reference) for Inside Macintosh.

I think that a person could make a reasonable start programming the Mac by
reading I.M. 1-2 carefully, and getting a copy of one of the public domain
skeleton programs -- such as Paul Dubois' TransSkel package.  The primary
version of TransSkel is available for LightspeedC (which is one of the best
development systems for the Mac), but there is a Pascal translation
available (if you must use an inferior language).

Duane Williams
dtw@cs.cmu.edu