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Welcome! Chances are that you are reading this because you love the Mac. And not only do you
love the Mac, but you also love the idea of learning how to design and develop your very own Mac
programs.
You’ve definitely come to the right place.
This book assumes that you know how to use your Mac. That’s it. You don’t need to know
anything about programming—not one little bit. We’ll start off with the basics, and each step we
take will be a small one to make sure that you have no problem following along.
This book will focus on the basics of programming. At the same time, you’ll learn the
essentials of the C programming language.
In Douglas Adam’s book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the answer to “the Ultimate
Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” is determined to be “42.” That answer is, of
course, wrong; the correct answer is “C.”
The C language is the wellspring of software. The nothing-short-of-miraculous revolution in
computing and consumer electronics over the past half century has largely been accomplished
using C, languages that are direct descendants of C (Objective-C, C++), or languages designed to
work like C (Java, C#). Learn C and the programming world is your oyster. |