Emma Grey wrote:
> Hi Dale
Hi Emma,
Sorry I didn't notice your posting until today!
> As a follow-on to our conversation regarding The Leopard, I wonder if
> you could help me find a path to further appreciation of The Beast -
> re: making use of its Development potential.
>
> I can work in C (very modestly!) and I always install the 'Developer'
> Pack to use gcc for compiling little C tools for use in a shell -
> sometimes just for fun. But I've yet to cross the Rubicon and build
> anything with a proper Apple-flavoured GUI. Perhaps that's not
> im****tant to what I've been doing, but here's where your comment (that
> the improvements in 10.5 might be most fruitful for Developers) starts
> to interest me.
>
> Wearing your educational hat - though leaving Aunt Ada aside for a
> moment -
Oh dear, it seems you know me too well! :-)
> could I ask you to recommend a book (or sequence of them) to
> help me cross that divide? There are so many of them it's hard to know
> where to start - not being a Scientist. If it helps, as a Humanityrian
> I'm primarily working with text (chuncks of it), and it's selective
> retrieval.
The best book is universally agreed to be that by Aaron Hillegass -
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
(http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-X/dp/0201726831)
>
> I'd be grateful for any leads here.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Emma
Hope this helps.
Dale
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