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Codewarrior Software Development Using Powerplant: The Macintosh Toolbox and Power Plant

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Don't waste your money on this one, the publisher was wise in deciding not to continue to print it. The author could learn much about teaching from any of the Johnson Publshing student manuals at any CompUSA Training Center. There's very little "How To" in the book. The example "Penultimate Videos" is supposed to be a PowerPlant example, but try getting it to compile on a modern version of CodeWarrior. Even with the CW Pro 4 "Update", which I found only by digging through old newsgroup articles, it doesn't perform as advertised. If only Stephen Prata could be convinced to write a "PowerPlant Primer Plus", all us Mac devotees (and Apple) would be much better off.

An excellent reference for PowerPlant programmers as well as programmers that are new to PowerPlant. I wouldn't have had the motivation to learn PowerPlant without this book.

Having started with simple shell programming and gradually moving into the realms of visual programming tools, the jump to the Macintosh has always eluded me. This book finally 'clicked' where others hadn't, setting out the foundations of program structure in a manner which let the windows thinker easily grasp the macintosh concept. This is not a book for those unfamiliar with CodeWarrior, and it helps to have the software up and running while you're reading (not the lite version they supply either, get the professional or discover programming edition). If you've been trying to make the crossover, this book will help you get there.