I need a specific book or set of books that will help me learn how to write programs for the Mac. Not generically, yet not too high level. I know nothing about coding. I want to learn how to create AudioUnits in particular. My son wants to learn how to create games. I will venture that this is done by more than one approach, or programming language. I haven't 'programmed' since BASIC on my Atari 400 a million years ago. He's never programmed. We're both avid Mac users, myself professionally, but not a software author. Do you have a book that will meet our needs? Or can you point me to what language(s) we need to learn?
I notice you are publishing a text on computer orchestration soon. As someone with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and a MS degree in instructional technology, and someone who teaches a college orchestration class, I'd be willing to do a prepublication perusal if you think an informed outsider's comments and suggestions might prove helpful. Let me know if you'd like my input.
I recently purchased your book "Switching to the Mac" - Leopard Edition. In Chapter 7, under "Quicken" (Page 206) there is a reference to a free PDF Appendix for the official manual on transferring quicken data from a PC to the MAC. I do not see any reference to that manual under Chapter 7.
I bought "CSS - The Missing Manual" and the back cover says that I have a free online edition. It says the details are on the last page (which they are not - there is no mention of the free online edition on the last page of the book). I tried to access it in Safari and that tells me that I need to spend another big chunk of my paltry income to subscribe ... hardly what I'd call "Free".
Has anyone had any success getting examples (>pg 64) from "Programming Python" (3rd Edition) to work on Mac OS 10.4.11? The examples on the first 60-odd pages worked, but things started to fall apart once I got to the intro section on GUI's and completely failed by page 74 (Web Interface, Web Servers, etc). I know that Lutz says that he only tested the examples on Linux and Windows, but this is very disappointing.
Do you sell books by other publishers? I have a pioneering language book, would like to sell it in Australia ... It's called the New Zealand Maori Word Encyclopedia. It is distributed throughout NZ by Nationwide Books.
1 - The following is a copy of an email I tried to send to "bookquestions@oreilly.com" (the email address given on Page xvii of the preface of the book.). The email was returned as undeliverable.
2 - (Problem Loading example Chapters for this book. Error Message says "can't load content because the correct version of the content installer component cannot be found "- when double clicking on "Programming Visual Basic 2008 Templates.vsi" after having, apparently successfully, loaded the unzipped files.
Fell at the first fence I'm afraid!
I'm using the Express Edition of VB 2008.net and have tried re-downloading the actual Example files a couple of times.
I have recently purchased "Start Your Engines - Developing Driving and Racing Games", published by Paraglyph Press, and cannot find the source code. It is my understanding that O'Reilly now handles the titles by this publisher. Is there a URL that you could point me to, which would have the source code for this book? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Childhood Cancer series
As a pediatric oncologist on the verge of retirement I would like to thank you for supporting Nancy Keene and her books relating to childhood cancer.
Why are the "Harvard Business Review" periodicals not available on O'Reilly Safari? Harvard Business Review always pops up in the type-ahead search box when searched so this tells me that other people are likely searching for the periodicals as well.
I invariably buy O'Reilly books first when i want to learn something new. This time, in the case of "Learning Ruby" by Michael Fitzgerald, I was dumbfounded and disappointed. I purchased "Ruby for Rails" by David A. Black, published by Manning, and, even though it has "Rails" in the title, which I wasn't quite interested in yet, I found it a much better tutorial for learning Ruby. Your book doesn't explain in enough depth, doesn't provide an easy way to find info on a topic in one place, and completely fails to teach Ruby. Let me know when it's been completely scrapped and re-done from the ground up to actually let readers Learn Ruby.
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