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Palm OS Programming
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Palm OS Programming is a comprehensive introduction to programming for the Palm operating system, the fastest growing computer operating system and platform ever created, and certainly the most popular mobile computing platform in existence today.
Throughout my career in software, whenever I was confronted with the challenge of quickly and efficiently getting up to speed with a new operating system, tool, development library, or other technology, I ran for the nearest bookstore (these days I head straight for www.amazon.com!). I would immediately scan the available titles that covered the subject matter I was interested in, and where there were several, I would naturally gravitate toward the books that presented the material in a large number of bite-sized, easy-to-understand examples that focused on various aspects of the technology.
I’d open one of those books, and right away I could usually spot four or five chapters that I could instantly make use of. I would without fail elect to buy that title over all the others, with the confidence that it would give me the immediate practical know-how I needed, but also have the depth that would allow me access to information as my curiosity drove me to investigate the technology further.
I’ll leave it to the reader to decide whether I was successful in creating that kind of book. But there is no doubt in my mind that books of that sort are desperately needed for the vast numbers of software developers who are new to the Palm OS. Palm, Inc., has done an admirable job assembling all of the developer documentation and API listings for the programming community, but those are references, to be opened when you already know the functions you need to use. The problem is that developers new to Palm programming do not already know the right functions to use, nor do they have time to figure it out themselves.
Glenn Bachmann - Personal Name
0-672-32413-X
NONE
Information Technology
English
2003
1-569
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