Macintosh Programming Resources

What is New?

• The free Aretha release of Frontier (5/25)

• Macintosh Programmer's Toolbox Assistant, with updates (5/23)

• Land o' Mac Geeks

  (5/9)

• Apple DTS Sample Code (5/9)

• WorldScript-Aware Styled Text Engine (WASTE) (5/8)

• Mercutio MDEF (5/8)

• Apple's Macintosh Developer's Guide (5/2)

• MacHack® X (5/2)

• OpenDoc Intro Course (5/2)

• QuickDraw GX Programming Intro (5/2)

OpenDoc®, the future of Computer Applications!

Frequently Asked Questions

Documentation

• Inside Macintosh,
• Human Interface Guidelines

• Apple Directions

• OpenDoc Intro Course

• QuickTime programming

• QuickDraw GX Programming Intro

• Macintosh Programming: Printed Resources

• New QuickTime TechNotes; reorganized into just three, with sections corresponding to the NIM books, and all info not relevant to 1.6.1/2.0 removed.

• AppleGuide Authoring Kit (NOTE: 9Mb StuffIt file. Will decompress to 30MB.)

• Programmer's Introduction to PowerPC and Intro to RISC Technology (from Apple's Developer University

• Usenet Macintosh Programmer's Guide: Volume I and the Math & Algorithms chapter from the in-progress Volume II
  (NOTE: Both are about 100k)

Tools, utilties, and demos available over the internet

Apple Network Services

• Apple Developer Technical Support, includes Inside Macintosh, Apple DTS Sample Code, and Tech Notes! (Tech Notes now with Erratas!)

• Apple Developer Services

• Apple's Cambridge Laboratory
  Currently home of MCL and Dylan.

• QuickDraw GX Home Page

• Developer seed information

• ftp.apple.com: The grandaddy of them all.

• Porting to PowerPC

• (APDA Ordering Information

• Apple DTS's Docgow Nest

• Apple's Macintosh Developer's Guide

Third Party Network Services

• Metrowerks' Code Warrior Development System

• Pictorius providers of Prograph and Peregrine

• Eric Scouten's MacTCP Programmer's Resource Guide

• Get1Resource: A Macintosh Programming Web 'Zine

• GUSI/SK Q&A (BSD socket libraries)

• WorldScript-Aware Styled Text Engine (WASTE)

• Mercutio MDEF

• alt.sources.mac resource

• The Macintosh AfterDark Programmers Manual.

• MacTech magazine

• Scripting
  • The free Aretha release of Frontier

  • Companion page for the MacScript mailing list. (Mostly about AppleScript).

  • MacScript mailing list archive. (Mostly about AppleScript.)

  • MacPerl Q&A (MacPerl Manual (Texinfo version)) And the Perl MetaFAQ.

• Mac Programming Awards

• Chimoof, Chicago Apple Developer Association (3/6)

• Land o' Mac Geeks

Archives

• The Think Class Library

• MacTech article archives

• Archive site of the AfterDark programmer's mailing list
  Includes the Macintosh AfterDark Programmers Manual.

• AV Pit Stop (development info/utilities for Mac AV machines)

• Comp.sys.mac.programmer digest WAIS archive: Direct access

• alt.sources.mac archive

• Source code from Dave Mark's Macintosh C Programming Primer: Vol 1

• The latest THIN C Development environment for Dave Mark's book Learn C on the Macintosh

Miscellaneous

• Unicode

• Languages
  • Dylan and other dynamic languages.

  • C++ Forum from Quadralay.

  • Prograph CPX, the only completely visual and object-oriented (including the Mac Toolbox) development environment.

  • Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL)

  • List of on-line programming courses from Jon Wiederspan

  • MacPerl Manual (Texinfo version)

  • Mops (Forth-based OOPL)

May 9, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)