Mac Programming for Dummies?

by Dan Parks Sydow

Book Overview

Ten Absolutely Essential Toolbox Functions Inside! Your Guide to Creating Software for the Mac -- Covers Through OS 8.5 The Mac is back! With the success of the iMac and the power of high-end Macs,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568841736
• ISBN13: 9781568841731
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Spectacular Book

It was great, I learned the basics of C Programming for Macs in at least 2 weeks. Great Book!

Complete on basics and good followup exercises

Dan Parks Sydrow has a great repuation of being a versed Mac author and he demonstrates this again in this basics programming book. Trying to learn a new concept from no previous knowledge of Mac programming, yet being a native of the Mac platform, I wanted solid foundations that would give me further insights into more adv. books/tecniques. This book does well to present, explain and aquaint you with the all the major concepts and can set you up for further reading.A bit slow at times but very complete, I highly recommend it for the absolute beginner.

Best programming book ever

Before I bought this book, I knew only the Basic language. I had bought several other books that did not help at all. The first day that I bought this book, I was instantly creating programs for my mac. I gave this book a five because it goes through each and every line of code and tells you exactly what everything does. Not like those other so called beginner programming books that show you the code and expect you to know what it all is for. After the basics, I could easily understand all the other C programming books on my shelf. As most beginner programming books only teach you programming in a text window, this book will let you access the toolbox from the first example. Shows how to create a window, use event handlers, create menus, draw pictures and text to the screen, play sounds and animation. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the field of Macintosh programming. Has everything you need to write a Macintosh program, Codewarrior Compiler, sample code ect.

Perfect

Absolutely perfect. I started out with a Macintosh, and already had codewarrior to learn C/C++. Then I went to work programming on Windows NT with Visual C++, and learned all about how code and resources go together. I became quite adept at Windows programming but was frustrated that I couldn't find anything to show me how to create a single window or dialog for my Mac. I like a straightforward approach, yet every tutorial I found regarding Mac programming was pure garbage. Finally I got this wonderful book and learned the nitty gritty for the basics. Within minutes of opening it up for the first time I had my very first dialog up and running...

I Love this book!

I am new to programming. I am an Avionic Tech, by trade, so I'm not that dumb. But, after buying and then trashing books by Dave Mark and Jim Trudeau because they're too darn hard to read/obsorb, this book is welcome relief. I'm here shopping again for other books by Sydow. I can trust him to really teach! What else is a book for?