Re: Off topic - Becoming a Mac programmer?

Subject: Re: Off topic - Becoming a Mac programmer?
From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:48:52 -0800

At 3:45 PM -0500 2/5/01, Jeff Waddell wrote:
>I would like to become a Mac programmer, but I have questions about what is
>the best way to begin.
>
>I have no programming experience once-so-ever; just a pretty good knowledge
>of both OS 9 and OS X.

Unlike everyone else who suggested their favorite programming language, I'm going to suggest RealBASIC.

Start with something that lets you grasp the concepts of manipulating the machine in response to the user. Something that lets you create a few simple projects that work. Something that doesn't require you to learn as much about the tools as the rest of the process.

Personally, I think that ObjectiveC will seem like a reasonable step up from RealBASIC, just the syntax will be C instead of BASIC.

-pmb

--
Linus Torvalds on Macintosh resource forks:
"It's also realizing that maybe, just maybe, UNIX didn't invent every clever
idea out there. Maybe, just maybe, resource forks are actually a good idea.
And maybe we shouldn't just say "Oh, UNIX already has directories, we don't
need no steenking resource forks."
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/2980/2/

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