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Date: Sun 24-Jan-1989 16:27:15 From: Unknown Subject: NeXT Development Seminar at Indiana University A group of 25 hearty pioneers braved a virtual blizzard to join a 9 am seminar on NeXT Development led by Dennis Gannon. Meetings will be conducted each Friday at the same ghastly hour, 9 am, presumably in LH302. Other ad hoc meetings and times will be arranged if not by concensus, then by a sufficient number deeming it necessary. At present, Dennis Gannon has exhibited tremendous leadership skills and has agreed to convene the next few meetings and to be the point man. Ten areas were identified by the participants for immediate action and several members agreed to conduct briefings in their areas of expertise as it related to the agenda. The agenda was conceived of as a core or fundamental skills generally applicable to Unix machines of the 4.3BSD flavor, and features peculiar to the NeXT cube in particular. The fundamentals will be covered in the next few meetings, which will consist of the following topics: (NB: * denotes texts explicity recommended by NeXT, Inc.) 1. Unix --especially Mach, the 4.3BSD variety running on the NeXT. This meeting is to be conducted under the auspices of the systems staff. A personal favorite is <<The Unix Programming Environment>> by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, Prentice-Hall, 1984.* Also, <<The Design of the UNIX Operating System>> by Maurice J. Bach, Prentice-Hall, 1986.* 2. General features of C programming, especially as it relates to Object-oriented C. Conducted by Dennis Gannon. Reference I find <<The C Programming Language, 2d>> by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1988*, to be a well written and accessible primary source for the language. 3. Special features of Object Oriented C, especially as it relates to the Interface Builder (the next week.) Sources are Brad J. Cox, <<Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach>>. Addison Wesley, 1986. ISBN 0201-10393-1*; On-line information which can be printed out from the cube, and the Objective C manuals from The StepStone Corp, 75 Glen Road, Sandy Hook, CT 06482. ph: 1-800-289-6253. Objective C is a hybrid of Smalltalk and C. 4. The Interface Builder. This is the NeXTStep environment, the manager of Objective C and sound processing where anybody can be a programmer. Conducted by Greg Shannon. The on-line manuals are the only texts available. Send mail to me or Gannon if you need a copy. 5. Digital Signal Processor Programming. Conducted by Bob Bernacki. Get the <<Suggested Reading List>> as compiled by NeXT for references. Some information is on-line. I will try to post what I can. 6. Sound. 7. Display Postscript. Other topics to be handled are "Bugs and Features: What are they, how are they handled, and how can you tell the difference [sic]". "How to print with no (presumably NeXT) printer." After the basics are covered, and probably right around when release 0.9 comes out, the collective wisdom will be mustered to takle some real live projects. In the works are a. generating an image database. b. digitized sound synthesis. c. Analog-to-digital conversion. d. Physical systems simulations. e. Building libraries for CPU intensive things using the DSP. f. Sun ports. If you have ideas about what you would like to see, or to have discussed, there is a core of expertise building. Moreover, it seems that those involved are moving tangentially to each other, which means that there are a lot of different ideas and approaches in using this machine. THERE IS ROOM FOR EXPERIMENTATION AND ERROR, and this is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting periods in the history of computing. We would like to get a directory of NeXPerts on campus, that is, those of you who attended the Friday seminar and are intending to continue, as well as those of you who would like to attend, and those who can't but who are doing (or wanting to) some work with the NeXT. Please send your login, your REAL NAME, your department, your area of interest, your area(s) of expertise, and any other information you think might be helpful. John Glasscock Indiana University glasscoc@cica.cica.indiana.edu Bloomington, Indiana "I'm a victim of demand-driven desires in a supply-sided economy." Yours truly. >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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