Sep 96 URLs
Volume Number: 12
Issue Number: 9
Column Tag: Uniform Resource Locators
Uniform Resource Locators 
By Jim Straus, URLs@mactech.com
Don’t hesitate to notify me of any sites that you think would be of interest! As
always, the full list is maintained on-line at http://www.mactech.com/URLs.html.
Web Watch
This being September, traditionally the time for going back to school, we will look at
some Internet sites which allow you to learn to program your Macintosh on your own -
and which also take advantage of the Internet as a publishing medium.
An excellent place to start if you want to program the Mac is the Macintosh C
Home Page. This is a book, by K. J. Bricknell, in Australia, covering everything from
low-level events through custom windows. Included are sample code, demonstration
programs and lots of other stuff. There are two versions, one for CodeWarrior and one
for Symantec; both can be downloaded, and the former can be read on-line, with many
nice Web touches such as two frames with code and commentary respectively.
Macintosh C
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/alt.sources.mac/macintosh-c/
The Mac OS Students and Teachers site provides links to self-study tutorials and
other on-line resources (including commentary on the Macintosh C Home Page!), plus
Internet classes, where a group of people will follow one of the self-study courses with
a mentor providing guidance. If you need more structure to your learning, this would
be an excellent way to proceed. And if you can give of your time to help those still
learning, be sure to stop in. We need to evangelize Mac development and this would be
a great way to help.
Mac OS Students and Teachers
http://aimed.org/aimed/most/
No discussion of on-line learning would be complete without stopping by Apple’s
Developer University. Developer University has created self-study courses that have
been available in printed form for years. They have started to move these courses to
the Internet. Four of the courses have been transformed, and more are promised.
Apple Developer University
http://dev.info.apple.com/du/7.5online/7.5TopicsText/ST01-7.5Intro.html
To learn about Symantec’s THINK Class Library, there is a very nice tutorial,
again out of Australia. The student is taken through the development of several
programs, creating the projects, using Visual Architect, and writing the code.
Symantec TCL Tutorial
http://www.cs.uow.edu.au/people/nabg/SymTute/SymTCL.html
For PowerPlant learners, there is the PowerPlant Beginners page. This isn’t so
much a tutorial as a collection of reference material about PowerPlant. When the
Beginners page originally appeared, it looked like it was going to be collaborative
effort between the author and his readers. It has turned into more of a place for the
author to report what he has discovered about PowerPlant, which is currently rather
brief and superficial.
PowerPlant Beginners
http://www.interlog.com/~breakpt/html/powerplant.html
And let’s not forget good old Inside Macintosh. Apple has made some of the
volumes available on the Internet, as a publishing test. Hopefully they will complete
this project, as it would be very useful to be able to use the Internet to look up that
tidbit you need to finish your project. In any case, you will end up reading a lot of
Inside Macintosh if you do much Mac programming at all.
Inside Mac http://dev.info.apple.com/insidemac/files/Contents.html
Thanks this month to Jonn Chard, Evan Garbe, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Devon
Hubbard, Carol Lashman, Steve Makohin, Cliff Miller, Dave Nebinger, D. Slattery,
Tom Nielsen, Wayne Walrath, and many others for their contributions for their
suggestions and pointers to new and old sites.
Quickies
Internet-Related
Mac Internet Software http://www.cyberatl.net/%7Emphillip/index.html
New Technologies
Clock Chipping http://violet.berkeley.edu/~schrier/mhz.html
Cryptography Interface http://www.io.com:80/~combs/htmls/mcip.html
Vendors, Products and Miscellaneous
Cyberdog Demonstration Page http://www.resnova.com/cyberdog/
Info-Mac Home Page http://www.pht.com/info-mac/
Internet Only Mac Users
http://www.uta.edu/acs/microsys/mac/.HOME/jstewart/IO-MUG.html
The Ultimate Newton http://rainbow.rmii.com:80/~rbruce/
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