I'm just a BABY....
Posted:
Thu Feb 21, 2002 6:17 am
by dbyg
I am starting to get my feet wet in the area of the CLI. I know some things and and learning more every day. I am finding that experience is the best way to learn but I am sure that there are some basic things that I could learn/have a refferance to. My question is...
Are there any good books (or sites) on this stuff? I would like something that starts off slow then also has some advanced things as well.
How did the rest of you learn?
Re: I'm just a BABY....
Posted:
Thu Feb 21, 2002 8:51 am
by samad_lotia
What exactly do you want to learn? If you want to learn programming, start of with something easy to learn and work with. I first fooled around with REALbasic for about a year or so. That taught me a lot about programming. You don't have to buy any books because they give you all the documentary. Then move on to something a bit more challenging like C. When you really have a strong handle over pointers, dynamic allocation, memory leaks, and all that stuff, you're pretty much a C novice. It takes patience. Sometimes, experience is the only way to figure out something.
Re: I'm just a BABY....
Posted:
Thu Feb 21, 2002 8:53 am
by samad_lotia
Oh yeah. When you're learning C and you want to write GUI programs and stuff, don't use Carbon. Use something that's easier like GTK (
www.gtk.org) or Qt (
www.trolltech.com). These are for the Unix windowing system, or the X Window System. Qt has been natively ported to MacOSX. You can download an X Window System server for OSX and use GTK on that. If you're good with GTK or Qt, move on to Carbon.