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From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Beginning Programmer Seeks Help
Message-ID: <395@rondo.randvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:25:12 GMT
Reply-To: david@rondo.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Organization: The RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.
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    Ladies and Gents---

    After happily playing with my Mac for about four years now, I'm
teaching myself how to program it (using LSP 2.0; I'm also teaching myself
PASCAL).  I have a good PASCAL book, Symantac's "Just Enough Pascal" (which
isn't, quite), and five (count 'em) volumes of "Inside Macintosh."  The
problem is, the PASCAL book has nothing to do with the Mac, JEP teaches you
little about window manipulation, QuickDraw, or file management, and "IM,"
while exhaustive, could be made about 100% better through the judicious
employment of examples (Here's how to refresh your windows after you've
re-sized one, etc.).

    My question, then, is what other tutorial/instructional resources are
available for the Mac neophyte?  "Macintosh Revealed" looks like a
possibility, but how reliable is it?  I have Apple's "Programmer's
Introduction to the Macintosh" on order at a local bookstore (nobody ever
seems to have it in stock); will that be helpful?  I'd sure appreciate any
pointers y'all might be able to provide.

    Cheers.

					    --- das