Byte Programmers Cookbook 1994
BYTE's Mac Programmer's Cookbook is a 1994 book by Rob Terrell, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill of Berkeley, California. ISBN 0-07-882062-6.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xv, 246 pages.[2]
The book surveys shareware and freeware tools for Macintosh programmers: utilities, HyperCard externals, AppleScript additions, free programming languages, class libraries, sprite kits and debuggers. It came with a 3.5-inch high-density disk of programs and code discussed in the text, which is not part of the scan.[3][4] Chapter 3, "Trouble in Hacksville: When Good Macs Go Bad", is about system crashes, extension conflicts, trap patching and MacsBug, not hardware faults.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[3]
- Acknowledgments, p. xiii
- Part I: The Easy Stuff
- 1: Tricks of the Trade: Secrets of the Shadow Warriors, p. 3
- 2: Getting the Goods, p. 13
- 3: Trouble in Hacksville: When Good Macs Go Bad, p. 27
- 4: Altering Reality: Utilities for a Better Life, p. 43
- Part II: The Hard Stuff
- 5: External Commands: Help for the Working Stiff, p. 79
- 6: Ciphers and Secret Messages: Programming Languages, p. 111
- 7: Object Libraries, Class Libraries, and You, p. 125
- 8: The Zen of Good Code: Debuggers, p. 149
- Part III: The Extra Stuff
- A: How to Make a Million Bucks in Shareware, p. 167
- B: Try 'em Out for Size: Exploring the Disk, p. 175
- C: It Came From the Internet, Kinda, p. 183
- D: Local Heroes, p. 221
- Index, p. 235
What this book does not contain
[edit | edit source]It is a programming book. It has no service procedures, parts lists, schematics or electrical data; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The scan is 255 PDF pages including the covers.
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References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Rob Terrell, BYTE's Mac Programmer's Cookbook (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1994), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 2-3). Hosted as File:Byte_Programmers_Cookbook_1994.pdf.
- ↑ Open Library, Byte's Mac programmer's cookbook, record OL1210353M, from Library of Congress catalogue data (LCCN 94206336). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Terrell, BYTE's Mac Programmer's Cookbook, Contents at a Glance and Contents (PDF pp. 5-10).
- ↑ Terrell, BYTE's Mac Programmer's Cookbook, disk notice and back cover (PDF p. 255).