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Re: macos programming resources

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: macos programming resources
Date 2020-07-20 15:02 -0400
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In article <rf4mpt$3j5$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>
wrote:

> The Big Nerd Ranch is still around. 

that's surprising. their books are *awful*, full of errors, very poorly
written and not designed to teach anything. there are *much* better
resources available, many of them for free.

> The problem is that things are 
> starting to change significantly, moving from Objective-C with AppKit to 
> Swift with SwiftUI. I'm sure Objective-C with Appkit won't go away for 
> many many years, but already there are Swift-only frameworks and you can 
> see the writing on the wall.

swiftui is quite clearly the future. all new projects should be using
it, without question.

> > (I'm looking in particular for stuff on v3 audio units, and that seems
> > particularly iOS-centric)
> 
> That's going to be pretty hardcore. BNR had a book on Core Audio, but 
> otherwise you really need to spend time watching WWDC videos. Apple 
> doesn't tend to bother documenting stuff any more except via WWDC video :-(

core audio is rather convoluted. there were a couple of decent books on
it, but these days, they're old and not that relevant anymore.

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macos programming resources TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-20 11:54 +0000
  Re: macos programming resources Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-20 12:39 +0000
  Re: macos programming resources Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2020-07-20 19:12 +0100
    Re: macos programming resources nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-20 15:02 -0400
      Re: macos programming resources TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-21 13:08 +0000
    Re: macos programming resources TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-20 20:37 +0000
      Re: macos programming resources Sak Wathanasin <sw@nan.co.uk> - 2020-07-21 04:02 -0700
        Re: macos programming resources TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-21 13:10 +0000
          Re: macos programming resources TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-21 13:22 +0000

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