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Book:		Learning Carbon
Subject:		Learning Carbon Review
Date:		2001-08-23 01:45:07
From:		Pat Jensen

Rating: As a UNIX user new to Mac OS X and interested in development, I chose to take the Carbon route. Carbon consists of Apple's time tested APIs that are cross-compatible with OS 9 and OS 10. O'Reilly's Carbon book was excellent and using it and my intermediate C skills, I was able to get my feet wet and start writing Carbon applications. I did not want to take the object-oriented route and invest time in learning new APIs as well as new language constructs like Cocoa or Java and I found this book to be a great resource. It contains a great Moon Planner tutorial which will help build understanding of the Carbon APIs as well as tutorials on how to use the Mac OS X development tools. I would suggest new Carbon users also purchase the Mac OS X System Overview book from Apple, as it drills into application installation, frameworks and more. Great book!