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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: New Mac Programmer...
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Date: 6 Mar 89 17:29:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Mar  6 11:29:00 1989


I took a similar survey 1 month ago.

Inside Macintosh is not a tutorial.  To learn as fast as possible, I
suggest getting a tutorial book, and then buy Inside Mac books as
you need them, or xerox interesting chapters from someone, since the
"Inside ..."  series may change (rumor?) in the near future.

I finally bought:    "Programming With Macintosh TURBO Pascal", Tom Swan

Advantages --
  0.  Enthusiastic, interesting writing
  1.  Not a university textbook (doesn't teaching you about stacks, queues,..)
  2.  Approx 25 programming examples/projects, each explained in detail.
  3.  Lots of reuseable code.
  4.  Nearly all projects use the native-macintosh user interface (some 
      books rely too much on the Turbo/LSC/LSP shell interface)
  5.  Covers Quickdraw, Events, Windows, Controls, Resources, and more
  6.  Suitable for non-Turbo users (I'm using LightSpeedC)

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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