REALbasic: The Defintive Guide
The Definitive Guide
Published on 9. November 1999
Book
686 pages
978-1-56592-657-8 (ISBN)
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REALbasic is a very inexpensive program that allows users to design full-fledged applications. Simply put, it is like having Visual Basic on the Mac. It is an application for writing applications that are astonishingly small and fast. REALbasic uses a simple interface and an object- and event-oriented language; this makes development, maintenance, and alteration of projects very easy. There is no other program like this for the Mac. If you want to write a Mac application, you have little choice of application frameworks, and REALbasic is the only one with visual design, object orientation, and an easy language. With the Macintosh's popularity on the rise and REALbasic, which presently only runs on Mac, with plans to make Windows applications, the interested audience is wider than the platform implies. Presently there are no ordered instructional books for REALbasic. REALbasic: The Definitive Guide gives people the information they can't get from the documentation alone and provides new users with the details they need to grasp the program's essential concepts. This book takes the reader from zero knowledge of programming to the ability to program every aspect of REALbasic.
The book is divided into three main sections. Divided into three main sections, REALbasic: The Definitive Guide covers: Fundamentals: provides a detailed and comprehensive summary of the language that does more than list the details -- it quickly shows you how to think about programming and accomplish your goals in less time User Interface: goes on to cover the creation of a complete application with details of the rich classes and pre-defined tools that make life so much easier for the REALbasic programmer. Reaching Out: rounds out the book with comprehensive coverage of Internet communications, databases, multimedia, game programming and more! This book covers REALbasic 1 and REALbasic 2. Version 2 adds an internal database, an interface to SQL servers, and the ability to compile for Windows and Java. REALbasic: The Definitive Guide is poised to become an essential reference for the expanding legion of developers who are are discovering the power and flexibility of this program.
The book is divided into three main sections. Divided into three main sections, REALbasic: The Definitive Guide covers: Fundamentals: provides a detailed and comprehensive summary of the language that does more than list the details -- it quickly shows you how to think about programming and accomplish your goals in less time User Interface: goes on to cover the creation of a complete application with details of the rich classes and pre-defined tools that make life so much easier for the REALbasic programmer. Reaching Out: rounds out the book with comprehensive coverage of Internet communications, databases, multimedia, game programming and more! This book covers REALbasic 1 and REALbasic 2. Version 2 adds an internal database, an interface to SQL servers, and the ability to compile for Windows and Java. REALbasic: The Definitive Guide is poised to become an essential reference for the expanding legion of developers who are are discovering the power and flexibility of this program.
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Matt Neuburg started programming computers in 1968, when he was 14 years old, as a member of a literally underground high school club, which met once a week to do timesharing on a bank of PDP-10s by way of primitive teletype machines. He also occasionally used Princeton University?s IBM-360/67, but gave it up in frustration when one day he dropped his punch cards. He majored in Greek at Swarthmore College, and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1981, writing his doctoral dissertation (about Aeschylus) on a mainframe. He proceeded to teach Classical languages, literature, and culture at many well-known institutions of higher learning, most of which now disavow knowledge of his existence, and to publish numerous scholarly articles unlikely to interest anyone. Meanwhile he obtained an Apple IIc and became hopelessly hooked on computers again, migrating to a Macintosh in 1990. He wrote some educational and utility freeware, became an early regular contributor to the online journal TidBITS, and in 1995 left academe to edit MacTech Magazine. In August 1996 he became a freelancer, which means he has been looking for work ever since.