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  • Subject: Newbie question
  • From: Rams <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:52:06 -0400

Hi all,

I hope this isn't too far off topic, but I'm teaching myself C/C++/Obj-C and I'm a bit lost. Where would I find documentation for the APIs of these languages? I have a book and I'm learning the basics, but the big question on my mind is where are the API docs?

With Applescript, function descriptions are available in the application's or osaxen's dictionary. With Java there's always

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/

I know where the Cocoa docs are located, but outside of that, all I can find so far for C and friends are header files. These are generally very sparse on information, and seem to be scattered about randomly (I'm sure there is some logic to their organization, but I have yet to figure out what that is) Option-Double Click in PB went nowhere. Doing 'man string' on the command line gives me some interesting information, but still very sparse. What I'm looking for is an index of what classes, functions, etc. are available, and a general description of the classes/functions. I realize I'm just covering the basics at the moment (chapter 3 of Bruce Eckel's Thinking In C++), but syntax doesn't intimidate me and string + cout are getting old pretty fast.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
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