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- From: chuck@gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: C on a Mac: How to get started?
- Message-ID: <chuck-070193130618@choffman.gte.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 18:16:56 GMT
- References: <1ihfb7INNfv3@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk>
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- In article <1ihfb7INNfv3@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk>, agm@bnr.co.uk (Andrew G.
- Minter) wrote:
- >
- > I have a friend who has just bought a PowerBook and wants to start writing
- > little applications in C.
- >
- > I'd be very pleased if anyone could give some pointers to what software tools
- > and documentation he will need to get started (preferably not too expensive).
- > Right now I guess he will probably want Think C and "Inside Macintosh", but
- > I'm assume he'll need some kind of resource editor, plus some other stuff.
- >
-
- ResEdit is shipped as part of the THINK C package, and also is available at
- a whole bunch archive sites. If you want the manual, you can order from
- APDA.
-
- If you can, wait a few months for Inside Macintosh, because the series of
- volumes is being rewritten and reorganized.
-
- Macintosh C Programming Primer, Volume 1, Second Edition, by Dave Mark and
- Cartwright Reed is good. Dave Mark also wrote Volume II, which is still
- available in its first edition.
-
- A major challenge in writing "Macintosh" program is in creating the
- underlying structure for an event driven program in the first place. I
- submitted such a structure, called Chassis 4.3.1, to the archives at
- mac.archive.umich.edu and at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. I also posted it at
- America Online, (keyword mdv). You can also ftp it from us directly at
- ftp.gte.com (directory /pub/chuck). It has no System 7 specific code, and
- runs on 6.0.4 or above. (I also teach an eight-session course in this, if
- you want to pay my expenses for holiday, ahem, WORK, in the UK!)
-
- Chuck Hoffman
- chuck@gte.com
- GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- (617) 466-2131
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