Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / November 2007

Hi Dale

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
important 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 - 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.

I'd be grateful for any leads here.

Thanks

Emma