Re: Best Place to Learn Java on a Mac

Subject: Re: Best Place to Learn Java on a Mac
From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:16:44 -0700
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Don Guernsey  wrote:

>Anybody know of any formal classes or the best way to learn Java on a Macintosh.

Try Google with these keywords:
  java tutorial

The Sun Java Tutorial (for 1.4) is good, and applies to Mac OS X.  When
they show a command-line, use the one for Solaris, not the one for Windows.
Other than that, everything else should work fine.
  <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/>

This site also has good material:
  <http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tutor.htm>


To learn how Apple's tools (e.g. Xcode) work with Java, use Apple's intro
and tutorials:
  <http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/GS_Java/>

A caution: the Xcode Java tutorial is primarily an Xcode Cocoa-Java
tutorial.  Cocoa-Java is NOT what you want if you're interested in learning
Java itself.

You might be better off with a ProjectBuilder tutorial, which is Appendix A
here:
  <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java131Development/>

Another caution: some of the OS integration changed completely between 1.3
and 1.4 Java (MRJXXHandler et al.), as did features (hwaccel), and some
other things.  Some of what you learn about 1.3 may be obsolete on 1.4.
And some of what you learn about PB is different in Xcode.

For 1.4 Java on Mac OS X, I strongly suggest:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java141Development/index.html>

Or pick what you want to read here:
  <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Java.html>

You can search Apple's developer site here:
  <http://developer.apple.com/search/search.html>

If you can't find an Xcode tutorial that addresses Plain Ordinary Java,
rather than Cocoa-Java, I suggest filing a bug-report with Apple.
  <http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>


In any case, there is no "best way", because individual preferences vary.
That's the value of using a search engine: you can examine the material
yourself and see if you like it.  If you don't, then you just take the next
fruitful-looking URL in the search results.

  -- GG


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