Press Release
October 29, 1999
O'Reilly Publishes The Definitive Guide to REALBasic
SEBASTOPOL, CA--REALbasic is a very inexpensive program that allows
users to design full-fledged applications. Simply put, it is Visual
Basic on the Mac. It is an application for writing applications that is
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. "REALbasic is a
truly splendid way to program the Macintosh," says Matt Neuburg, author
of the just-released book
REALbasic: The Definitive
Guide (O'Reilly, $29.95). "Even more, it's a splendid way to program,
period."
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. Presently there are no instructional books for
REALbasic, and the official documentation is woefully inadequate.
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. "If you're
a beginner, you'll find REALbasic an excellent way to learn
programming; its native language is small and simple, and REALbasic
reinforces good programming techniques through it's inherent object
orientation, which inculcates, at an almost subconscious level,
important higher-level concepts such as classes and instances,
encapsulation, and inheritance," says Neuburg. "If you're an
experienced programmer, you'll find REALbasic easy to learn, and its
model of object orientation powerful and satisfying."
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. "Aspects of REALbasic may seem confusing
or daunting or clumsy, but I find it lucid and powerful and brilliantly
thought out. I knew that there needed to be a reasoned explanation of
REALbasic, and that I wanted to be the one doing the explaining. This
book is the result," Neuburg explains.
REALbasic: The Definitive
Guide is poised to become an essential reference for the expanding
legion of developers who are discovering the power and flexibility of this
program.
Online Resources
REALbasic: The Definitive
Guide
By Matt Neuburg
1st Edition, October 1999 (US)
ISBN: 1-56592-657-9, 686 pages, $29.95 (US$)
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