In article <MrNoSpam-EF0318.02155721112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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
Hi Dale
Thanks for the advice, and I've managed to find a copy, which was lucky
and such certifiable advice too! "Universally agreed on" is a quality
we in the Humanities can only dream of! Bickering is our normal
practice. Do you think I'll be able to write an elegant GUI for a
program to count those angels? Nah! We've never agree on the size of
the pin.
All the best to you.
Emma
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