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From: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Obligatory beginning-Mac-programmer questions
Message-ID: <2392@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 06:18:37 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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     A few quick questions:
     Aside from Inside Mac and the other official documentation, what books
would you recommend for an experienced Pascal/C programmer trying to learn
the Macintosh programming structure?
     Which development environment would you recommend for said experienced
programmer, on a limited budget (still working on paying off the Mac)?
User-friendliness, a good debugger, and clear documentation are all key
issues.
     How much easier does MacApp make the programming process?  Assuming it's
the wonderful base I've heard it is and I immediately rush out to use it, how
strongly should that influence the development environment I buy?  (How many
contortions do I have to go through to use MacApp with Think Pascal, that I
could avoid by using MPW?)
     I apologize if these questions are naive; but it appears that the only
way I'm actually going to see any of these language products is to buy them,
and I'd much rather have feedback from experienced programmers before making
an expensive mistake.
     (Besides, I'm curious to see how our friend from Symantec will reply...)
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