How difficult it is?

[Paul Mitchum]

Ann <fyang7@tom.com> wrote:

> I was a windows programmer. Now I have to jump into Mac programming
> work. I don't have any experience on Mac. Anyone can tell me how
> difficult it could be? How long do I need to prepare? Thanks a lot.

This might help you out:

<http://developer.apple.com/macosx/win32porting/>

Also, if you use VisualBasic, you'll want to look at REALbasic:

<http://www.realbasic.com/>

HTH.

[Carl R. Osterwald]

In article <1g0yvyc.i6hza15z8g9wN%usenet@mile23.com>, Paul Mitchum
<usenet@mile23.com> wrote:

> Ann <fyang7@tom.com> wrote:
>

> > I was a windows programmer. Now I have to jump into Mac programming
> > work. I don't have any experience on Mac. Anyone can tell me how
> > difficult it could be? How long do I need to prepare? Thanks a lot.

>
> This might help you out:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/win32porting/>

Also, the overall Apple developer site is a great resource:

<http://developer.apple.com/>

Metrowerks CodeWarrior is a very nice commercial C/C++ environment:

<http://www.metrowerks.com/>

If you use frameworks, Metrowerks has PowerPlant for Macintosh. There
is also Apple's Cocoa (Objective C) for Mac OS X. There is no MFC for
Macintosh.

Hope this helps.


-=-=-=-=-

[Jim Schimpf]

"Carl R. Osterwald" <i@mac.com> wrote in message news:<080920031500225672%i@mac.com>...

> In article <1g0yvyc.i6hza15z8g9wN%usenet@mile23.com>, Paul Mitchum
> <usenet@mile23.com> wrote:
>

> > Ann <fyang7@tom.com> wrote:
> >

> > > I was a windows programmer. Now I have to jump into Mac programming
> > > work. I don't have any experience on Mac. Anyone can tell me how
> > > difficult it could be? How long do I need to prepare? Thanks a lot.

> >
> > This might help you out:
> >
> > <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/win32porting/>

>
> Also, the overall Apple developer site is a great resource:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/>
>
> Metrowerks CodeWarrior is a very nice commercial C/C++ environment:
>
> <http://www.metrowerks.com/>
>
> If you use frameworks, Metrowerks has PowerPlant for Macintosh. There
> is also Apple's Cocoa (Objective C) for Mac OS X. There is no MFC for
> Macintosh.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-

Also it depends on what type of programming you are going to do. GUI,
command line, DB stuff, Java... Anyway on most everything but GUI
stuff OS X is more like Linux, that is the tools are similar and in
some cases you just port the Linux code. On the GUI side if you use
Cocoa then you should learn about Objective C. A good introductory
book is Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegasse. Also
there is an book like K&R for C about Objective C available free in a
PDF from the Apple developers website.

--jim