Fundamental Mac Programming Concepts

History and Credit

When The MOST originally started enrolling students in the first course that we offered (then called "Mac C", but now referred to by us as "MacOS Core Programming"), some of our original students came to the course with no background at all in the basics of computer hardware or software. While the specific course was, therefore, out of reach of those students, the leaders of The MOST agreed that it would be useful to create and support a really beginning level course for those who wished to learn to program using the Mac OS, but were starting from scratch.

No small assignment, for sure, due to the depth of material to cover (and how rapidly some of it becomes 'obsolete'), but then we always did like a good challenge. Radar (who had taught some of this stuff at ITT Tech in a previous life) composed the materials that constitute this course SO FAR in November of 1996. Since then, he hasn't spent any time updating the materials and doesn't project that he'll get back to doing so until the cows come home. Someday he expects to roll this material into another effort he produce independently and produce three base level MOST courses. In the interim, this stuff is still here.

Participation

The materials that we currently have on the site aren't sufficient to convey anything but the highest level of the concepts which they discuss. As such, they are suitable to introduce the fundamentals of their subject, but not sufficient on their own to serve as self-study materials for a course. Ergo, we don't even try (YET) to support a course at this level. You may peruse the materials to get a high level introduction to programming concepts, but we don't support questions on them at this time. If you have a strong interest that we do so, please make your request known to radar.

Enrollment

Since there's no course, there's no enrollment. Pretty simple.

Materials

The materials for this course may be accessed from this web site via the FMPC lessons menu.

Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998. Last Update to This Page: 1998/10/22
This Page Maintained by: radar pangaean * * * Original Author: radar pangaean
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