Editing Category:Apple Programming Documentation

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Around '''160 programming books, compiler manuals and language references''' are held in this category. '''Almost none of them is a repair source.''' They carry no schematic, no parts list, no component value and no fault-finding procedure, and '''no figure on this wiki should be cited from any of them'''. For hardware, start at [[Maintenance Guides]].
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== What in here does bear on hardware ==

* '''[[MC68030 Enhanced 32 Bit Microprocessor Users Manul Second Edition 1989|Motorola MC68030 User's Manual]]''' — the manufacturer's own document for the processor in the Macintosh IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIsi, IIfx, SE/30, Classic II and LC III. Carries the '''V<sub>CC</sub> and GND pin assignments''', the maximum ratings, the thermal figures, the ordering table and Motorola's own decoupling recommendation (10 µF + 0.1 µF + 330 pF in parallel, as close to the device as possible). The DC and AC electrical specifications are in a separate Motorola document that this wiki does '''not''' hold.
* '''[[Power PC Concepts Architecture Design 1994]]''' — PowerPC architecture, in a workstation series alongside RS/6000 and AIX titles. The starting point for understanding what the processor in a Power Macintosh actually is.
* '''[[MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide]]''' (filed under [[:Category:Apple Documentation]]) — Apple's own debugger manual, whose ''Debugging Strategies'' chapter separates a reproducible software crash from a hardware fault.

== Apple's and the vendors' own manuals ==

These are first-party product documentation rather than books about the products:

* '''[[HyperCard Users Guide 1987]]''' — Apple Computer, Inc., 1987
* '''[[Borland Turbo Pascal 1986]]''' — Borland's own ''Turbo Pascal for the Mac'' user's guide and reference manual; this copy is a '''Borland Scholar Program''' academic edition
* '''[[Turbo Pascal Toolbox Numerical Methods 1987]]''' — Borland's Numerical Methods Toolbox manual. The library itself was on disk and is not here
* '''[[Microsoft Basic Interpreter 1984]]''' — Microsoft Corporation's own manual, complete with a Software Problem Report form
* '''[[Symantec C++ compiler guide1985]]''' — Symantec's ''Compiler Guide, Version 8, for Power Macintosh''. '''The date in that page's title is wrong by a decade''': the document's copyright line runs 1989–1995 and the Power Macintosh did not exist in 1985

== By subject ==

=== PowerPC ===
[[Power PC Concepts Architecture Design 1994]] (architecture) · [[Optimizing PowerPC Code 1995]] (assembly language, 692 pp) · [[Power PC Programming for Intel Programmers 1995]] (by a Motorola engineer, 724 pp) · [[PowerPC Programmers Toolkit 1996]] (reviewed by Metrowerks and Apple staff) · [[Programming The PowerPC 1994]] (written as the first Power Macs shipped, with the compatibility chapters)

=== 680x0 ===
[[MC68030 Enhanced 32 Bit Microprocessor Users Manul Second Edition 1989]] (Motorola's own) · [[High Level Programmers Guide to the 68000 1992]] (Prentice Hall, Hoare series) · [[Programming the 68000 1986]] and [[SAMS 68000 68010 68020 Primer 1987]] ('''both have no file''' — see below)

=== ResEdit ===
[[ResEdit Complete 1991]] (ResEdit 2.1) · [[ResEdit Complete 1993]] (second edition, ResEdit 2.1.1) · [[Zen and the Art of resorce Editing 1995]] (the BMUG guide, fourth edition) · [[The Res Edit All Night Diner 1993]]

=== Pascal ===
[[MacPascal Programming 1985]] · [[The MacPascal Book 1985]] · [[Oh Pascal! 1986]] ('''a 118-page supplement''', not the full course text) · [[Object-Oriented Programming Power 1991]] (THINK Pascal)

=== C, C++ and the frameworks ===
[[C++ Programming with MacApp 1987]] ('''actually a 1990 book''' — its copyright page reads 1990 and it first printed in July 1990) · [[C ++ Programming With Code Warrior 1995]] · [[Code Worrior Software Development Using PowerPlant 1996]] · [[Metrowerks Code Worrior Programming 1995]] · [[Metrowerks CodeWorrior Programming 1997]] (second edition) · [[Symantec C++ 1994]] · [[Easy Object Programming 1993]] (AppMaker and THINK C) · [[The Tao of Objects 1990]] ('''not a Macintosh book''' — C++ and Turbo Pascal) · [[Mastering the Think Class Library 1995]] ('''no file''')

=== BASIC ===
[[Microsoft Basic Interpreter 1984]] · [[Microsoft Basic 1985]] · [[Microsoft Macinations 1985]] · [[Learning FutureBasic 1994]]

=== HyperCard and HyperTalk ===
[[HyperCard Users Guide 1987]] (Apple's own) · [[HyperTalk Bible 1989]] (727 pp, HyperTalk 1.2.2, with a full syntax summary on the endpapers)

=== The Toolbox, the system and the interface ===
[[Programming For System 7 1991]] · [[Programming QuickDraw 1992]] · [[A Fragment Of Your Imagination 1995]] (code resources, and the 32 K limit) · [[Programming The Micintosh User Interface 1986]] · [[Software by Design 1994]] · [[Byte Programmers Cookbook 1994]] · [[Programmers Guide to MPW 1990]] ('''no file''')

=== Filed here but not about Macintosh programming ===
* '''[[Fear Macs No More 1993]]''' — Danny Goodman's '''beginner's guide to using a Macintosh'''. Not a programming book at all.
* '''[[Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days 1996]]''' — a general Java tutorial with no Macintosh-specific content.
* '''[[The Tao of Objects 1990]]''' — C++ and Turbo Pascal, no Macintosh content.

== Apple's own books in this category ==

Four titles here are Apple Computer publications rather than books about Apple's machines, which
makes them worth more than the rest &mdash; they are what Apple itself said, at the time.

* '''[[Technical Instroduction To The Macintosh Family 1987|Apple Technical Introduction to the Macintosh Family]]''' &mdash; Apple Computer, Addison-Wesley, 1987. Apple's own technical overview of the 512K enhanced, Plus, SE and II: processor, memory, ROM and Toolbox, file system, printing, networking and the expansion architecture, with NuBus described as it was introduced. '''The page title misspells "Introduction".'''
* '''[[Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines 1992]]''' &mdash; Apple Computer, Addison-Wesley, 1992, 398 pp. Apple-authored (its standard manual warranty text is the tell): the desktop metaphor, direct manipulation, feedback and forgiveness, then the detailed specification of menus, windows, dialogues, controls, colour and language.
* '''[[Macintosh System Software Users Guide 1988|Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0]]''' &mdash; Apple's own manual, 295 pp, with a long chapter on '''MultiFinder''': what it is, its memory requirements and how applications share the machine under it.
* '''[[Real World Apple Guide 1995]]''' &mdash; Jesse Feiler, M&amp;T Books, 1995, 417 pp, on '''Apple Guide''', the context-sensitive help system introduced with System&nbsp;7.5.

== Reference rather than tutorial ==

* '''[[The Programmers Apple Mac Sourcebook 1989|The Programmer's Apple Mac Sourcebook]]''' &mdash; Thom Hogan, Microsoft Press, 1989, 485 pp. '''Reference tables, not prose''': Macintosh hardware and system-software constants, tabulated. The closest thing in this category to a lookup book.
* '''[[Macintosh Programming Secrets 1988]]''' &mdash; Scott Knaster, Addison-Wesley, 1988, 376 pp, on undocumented and half-documented Toolbox behaviour. Held here as two independent scans; the second is linked from that page.
* '''[[Writing Localizable Software For The Macintosh 1992]]''' &mdash; Daniel R. Carter, Addison-Wesley ''Macintosh Inside Out'', 1992, 491 pp: script systems, text handling, date and number formats.
* '''[[The Macintosh Font Book 1989]]''' &mdash; Erfert Fenton, Peachpit Press, 1989, 262 pp: bitmap and PostScript fonts and font management of the period.

== Chernicoff's ''Macintosh Revealed'' ==

Stephen Chernicoff's four-volume Toolbox series, the standard third-party companion to
''Inside Macintosh''. All four volumes and both editions of volume one are held:

* '''[[Macintosh Revealed Volume One Unlocking the Toolbox 1985|Volume One: Unlocking the Toolbox]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1985, 522 pp, carrying the '''Apple Press''' imprint statement
* '''[[Macintosh Revealed 2nd Edition Volume One 1987|Volume One, second edition]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1987, 585 pp, revised for the Plus and SE
* '''[[Macintosh Revealed 2nd Edition Volume Two 1987|Volume Two: Programming with the Toolbox, second edition]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1987, 680 pp
* '''[[Macintosh Revealed Volume Three 1989|Volume Three: Mastering the Toolbox]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1989, 614 pp; its printing chapter alone runs 114 pages
* '''[[Macintosh Revealed Voume Four Expanding the Toolbox 1990|Volume Four: Expanding the Toolbox]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1990, 564 pp. The second-edition volumes announce volume four as ''Programming the Macintosh II''; the book as published has a different title and a different scope. '''The page title misspells "Volume".'''

Alongside them: '''[[Mastering The Macintosh Tool Box 1986]]''' (David B. Peatroy / Datatech, 1986,
206 pp), '''[[On Macintosh Programming Advanced Techniques 1990]]''' (Daniel K. Allen,
Addison-Wesley, 1990, 503 pp), '''[[Programming The Macintosh An Advanced Guide 1986]]''' (William B.
Twitty, Scott Foresman, 1986, 363 pp), '''[[Ultimate Mac Programming 1994]]''' (IDG, 1994, 587 pp, on
Apple events, the Object Model, the Sound Manager and trap patching) and
'''[[The Magic Of Macintosh Programming Graphics and Sound 1986|The Magic of Macintosh]]''' (Twitty,
Scott Foresman, 1986, 323 pp).

== Pascal ==

The largest group in the category, because Pascal was how the Macintosh was taught.

* Apple's interpreter, ''Macintosh Pascal'': '''[[Macintosh Pascal Carmony-Holliday 1985]]''' (Computer Science Press, 1985, 512 pp) &middot; '''[[Macintosh Pascal Moll-Folsom 1985]]''' (Houghton Mifflin / THINK Technologies, 1985, 505 pp &mdash; its endpaper table of standard procedures cross-referenced to the text is the most useful page in it) &middot; '''[[Programming Macintosh Pascal 1987]]''' (DiElsi and Grossman, Macmillan, 1987, 494 pp, for version 2.1) &middot; '''[[The First Book Of Macintosh Pascal 1985]]''' (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1985, 420 pp) &middot; '''[[Macintosh Hands-On Pascal 1986]]''' (Lewis and Birjandi, Wadsworth, 1986, 325 pp) &middot; '''[[Scientific Programming with Macintosh Pascal 1986]]''' (Crandall and Colgrove, Wiley, 1986, 286 pp &mdash; numerical work rather than interface work)
* General Pascal on the Macintosh: '''[[Pascal for the Macintosh 1986]]''' (Ledgard and Singer, Addison-Wesley, 1986, 396 pp) &middot; '''[[Pascal on the Macintosh A Graphical Approach 1987]]''' (Niguidula and van Dam, Addison-Wesley, 1987, 715 pp, built around graphics; held as two scans) &middot; '''[[Pascal Premier For The Macintosh 1985|Pascal Primer for the Macintosh]]''' (The Waite Group, NAL, 1985, 336 pp &mdash; '''the page title misspells "Primer"''')
* THINK Pascal: '''[[Structured Programming Using Think Pascal On The Macintosh 1992]]''' (Crawley, McArthur and Jacobson, Prentice Hall, 1992, 800 pp) &middot; '''[[Programming in Macintosh and Think Pascal 1995]]''' (Rink, Wisenbaker and Vance, Prentice-Hall, second edition 1995, 810 pp &mdash; covers Apple's interpreter and Symantec's compiler side by side)
* Turbo Pascal: '''[[Programming With Macintosh Turbo Pascal 1987]]''' (Tom Swan, Wiley, 1987, 412 pp) &middot; '''[[Turbo Pascal For The Mac 1988]]''' (Goodman and Zeldin, Brady, 1988, 411 pp) &middot; '''[[Turbo Pascal For The Mac Programming With Business Applications 1987]]''' (Leon A. Wortman, TAB 2927, 1987, 270 pp)
* Object Pascal and MacApp: '''[[Object-Oriented Programming fo the Macintosh 1986|Object-Oriented Programming for the Macintosh]]''' (Kurt J. Schmucker, Hayden, 1986, 613 pp &mdash; the standard account, covering Object Pascal, MacApp and Smalltalk-80. '''The page title drops the "r" from "for"''')

== C, C++ and Symantec ==

* '''[[Programming C On The Macintosh 1986]]''' &mdash; Terry A. Ward, Scott Foresman, 1986, 428 pp
* '''[[Programming the Macintosh in C 1986]]''' &mdash; SYBEX, 1986, 312 pp. Its front matter names the exact toolchain it was tested on: a two-drive Macintosh, '''Consulair Mac C release 2.0''' and the Macintosh Development System
* '''[[Think C Proramming Fundamentals For The Macintosh 1993|THINK C Programming Fundamentals for the Macintosh]]''' &mdash; Dan Parks Sydow, Prima, 1993, 502 pp. '''The page title misspells "Programming".'''
* '''[[Symantec C++ Programming For The Macintosh 1993]]''' (Rhodes and McKeehan, Brady, 1993, 703 pp) and '''[[Symantec C++ Prrogramming for Macintosh 1994|the 1994 second edition]]''' (Sams, 792 pp, the Symantec official guide, covering "all versions through 6.5"). '''These are two different books''', not two scans of one &mdash; different publisher, different ISBN, different length. '''The 1994 page title misspells "Programming".'''
* '''[[Symantec C++ Developing System For Power Macintosh 1995|Symantec C++ Development System for Power Macintosh, Version 8 &mdash; User's Guide]]''' &mdash; Symantec's own product manual, 656 pp
* '''[[Teach Yourself Mac C++ Programming 1994]]''' &mdash; Namir Clement Shammas, Sams, 1994, 888 pp
* '''[[Programming Primer for the Macintosh 1995]]''' &mdash; May and Whittle, AP Professional, 1995, 296 pp (volume 1)

== Assembly language and MPW ==

* '''[[Programming the Macintosh In Assembly Language 1986]]''' &mdash; SYBEX, 1986, 812 pp. Its trademark page is a snapshot of the 1986 toolchain: Macintosh Development System, MacsBug, Consulair C, Lisa Pascal Workshop, MaxDB and TermBug
* '''[[Programming With Macintosh Programmers Workshop 1987]]''' &mdash; Joel West, Bantam, 1987, 773 pp. The standard third-party account of '''MPW''', Apple's own development environment, and the largest MPW document held here

== BASIC ==

* '''[[Microsoft BASIC For The Macintosh 1985]]''' &mdash; Goldstein and Schneider, Brady, 1985, 564 pp
* '''[[Macintosh Programming Using MS-Basic 1985|Macintosh Programming Using MS-BASIC 2.0]]''' &mdash; Richard C. Vile, Jr., TAB 2621, 1985, 289 pp, including Toolbox access from BASIC
* '''[[SAMS Macintosh Programming Techniques 1985|Macintosh Programming Techniques: Microsoft BASIC 2.0]]''' &mdash; David C. Willen, Howard W. Sams, 1985, 396 pp
* '''[[The Macintosh Basic Handbook 1984]]''' &mdash; SYBEX, 1984, 848 pp. SYBEX prints a warning worth repeating: '''"The toolbox interface is not an official feature of Macintosh BASIC."'''
* '''[[Using & Programming The Macintosh 1984]]''' &mdash; Frederick Holtz, TAB 1840, 1984, 254 pp, with 32 type-in programs, published in the Macintosh's first year
* '''[[Understanding Apple Basic 1983]]''' &mdash; Richard G. Peddicord, Alfred Publishing, 1983, 62 pp. '''This is an Apple&nbsp;II book, not a Macintosh one''' &mdash; it predates the Macintosh &mdash; and it is the shortest document in this category

== PowerPC and games ==

* '''[[Power Macintosh Programming Starter kit 1994]]''' (Hayden, 1994, 444 pp) and '''[[Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh 1995]]''' (Hayden, Don Crabb Macintosh Library, 1995, 850 pp, shipped with a savable '''Metrowerks CodeWarrior''')
* '''[[Tricks Of The Mac Game Programming Gurus 1995]]''' &mdash; Hayden, 1995, 886 pp, multi-author
* '''[[Sex Lies and Video Games How to Write a Macintosh Arcade Game 1996]]''' &mdash; Bill Hensler, A-W Developers Press, 1996, 423 pp: sprites, sound and timing

== Pages in this category whose file was never uploaded ==

In addition to those listed below, these pages name a document that '''is not on this wiki''' &mdash;
both the embed and the download link are dead. Each page states the defect and asserts nothing about
the document: '''[[Macintosh Pascal Illustrated 1985]]''' &middot;
'''[[Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer 1990]]''' &middot; '''[[Macintosh Program Factory 1985]]''' &middot;
'''[[Macintosh Programming Primer 1989]]''' &middot; '''[[Macintosh Programming Techniques 1994]]''' &middot;
'''[[Macintosh Programming Techniques 1996]]''' &middot; '''[[More MAC Programming Techniques 1995]]''' &middot;
'''[[Programmers Introduction to the Macintosh Family 1988]]''' &middot;
'''[[Programming the 68000 Macintosh Assembly Language 1986]]''' &middot;
'''[[Symantec C++ for the Macintosh The Basics 1993]]''' &middot;
'''[[The Complete Book of Macintosh Assembly Language Programming Volume ll 1987]]''' &middot;
'''[[Using The Macintosh Toolbox With C 2nd Edition 1986]]'''

== Pages here whose file was never uploaded ==

'''Twenty-five pages in this category embed a file that does not exist on this wiki''' — both the embed and the download link are dead. They are collected automatically in [[:Category:Pages with broken file links]]. Five were examined during the verification drive:

* '''[[MC68030 Enhanced 32 Bit Microprocessor Users Manul Second Edition 1989]]''' — '''fixed'''. Motorola's manual has been sourced and hosted; the page now records that it is the Third Edition (1990), not the Second Edition (1989) its title names.
* [[Mastering the Think Class Library 1995]] · [[Programmers Guide to MPW 1990]] · [[Programming the 68000 1986]] · [[SAMS 68000 68010 68020 Primer 1987]] — still without files. Each page now states the defect plainly and points at the equivalent material this wiki does hold, rather than implying a document is here.

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