O’Reilly Releases First Palm Computing Platform Programming Guide
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — December 7, 1998 — O'Reilly and Associates, publishers of David Pogue's bestselling "PalmPilot: the Ultimate Guide," have followed up their successful entry into the Palm Pilot arena by publishing the first Palm Computing(R) platform programmers' guide — "Palm Pilot Programming: The Developer's Guide" by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan.
Palm Computing will be using "Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide" as their official developer's guide. The authors worked closely with Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com Company, to ensure that the book is tailored exactly to the needs of ever-growing group of Palm developers, and Palm will be using it as a key part of their training materials for developers.
"Palm Programming" shows intermediate to experienced C programmers how to build a Palm application from the ground up. With a clear, concise tutorial approach, this book gives readers everything necessary to create a wide range of Palm applications and HotSync(R) conduits, from simple scripts through full-blown applications.
It includes a CD-ROM (Macintosh and Windows compatible) with the full source code to the examples in the book, a trial version of Palm's Software Development Kit, and third-party developer tools, including Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Lite programming kit. This is the book to get if you're developing for the Palm Pilot.
For more information on the authors, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog/author.html
For more detailed information on the book, including Table of Contents, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog/
For Palm Pilot articles, reviews, interviews, and the latest information on the O'Reilly Palm Programming contest, see: http://palmpilot.oreilly.com
Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide By Neil Rhodes & Julie McKeehan 1st Edition December 1998 (U.S.) 1-56592-525-4, 464 pages , $ 32.95 (U.S.), Includes CD-ROM
For more information, review copies (media only), author interviews or graphics, contact: Lisa Mann, 707/829-0515 ext. 230 or lisam@oreilly.com
Note to Editors: Palm Computing, 3Com and HotSync are registered trademarks, and Palm and PalmPilot are trademarks of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries.
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