I can't believe this discussion has gone this long without mention of the greatest programming environment of all on the 68K Mac--HyperCard!!!
HyperCard may not be an "industry standard", but it certainly is a blast to use and has been used to create some amazing programs (most notably Myst and the other early Cyan titles). Apple had an excellent series of HyperCard-based classroom management programs in the early 1990s (HyperCard for Education) and plenty of other software was on the market that took advantage of HyperCard (I remember hearing about a family tree maker and a bar code creator). There were also some excellent public domain HyperCard stacks out there, from references (I have one about the characteristics, prevention, and cure of Mac viruses) to games.
As a programming environment, HyperCard worked a bit like HTML but was even easier to use and understand. It was easy enough for a moderately experienced Mac user to understand yet powerful enough for an experienced user who wanted to create decent programs. Danny Goodman had an excellent reference on HyperCard that turned many into decent program designers, but trial and error could lead to an understanding on the part of anyone. I first tinkered in HyperCard when I was five years old and am willing to bet there are some other folks who started young out there. (Some children probably started with Roger Wagner's HyperStudio, which was an even friendlier version of HyperCard that supported color, something that was difficult with Apple's program).
I still use HyperCard whenever I need to string together something to use as a program, bringing my iBook G3 along to use the stacks with. I develop with HyperCard 2.4.1 (I have the CD-ROM version of 2.3 and used Apple's updater from their website to bring it up to date). The HyperCard player is still on Apple's website and SuperCard is still out there to do what HyperCard used to--on OS X, no less.
I have used Code Warrior to program in C++. I used it at a computer camp on a PPC machine running OS 9.2.2 and felt it was a decent C++ environment. I used a Microsoft complier (on Win2K) in another C++ class I took and wasn't as impressed with it as I was with Code Warrior. I can't say I've done any C++ programming in about six years, but if I ever found a copy of Code Warrior for sale I'd have to consider getting back into it.
Does anyone have any comparisons between Code Warrior and Think C? I had wanted Think C in the 1990s but it was out of the price range for a Christmas gift for a nine year old (which is when I first read a book about programming in C using the compiler). I wound up getting SimCity 2000 (the CD Collection) that year instead (which was one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever).
HyperCard may not be an "industry standard", but it certainly is a blast to use and has been used to create some amazing programs (most notably Myst and the other early Cyan titles). Apple had an excellent series of HyperCard-based classroom management programs in the early 1990s (HyperCard for Education) and plenty of other software was on the market that took advantage of HyperCard (I remember hearing about a family tree maker and a bar code creator). There were also some excellent public domain HyperCard stacks out there, from references (I have one about the characteristics, prevention, and cure of Mac viruses) to games.
As a programming environment, HyperCard worked a bit like HTML but was even easier to use and understand. It was easy enough for a moderately experienced Mac user to understand yet powerful enough for an experienced user who wanted to create decent programs. Danny Goodman had an excellent reference on HyperCard that turned many into decent program designers, but trial and error could lead to an understanding on the part of anyone. I first tinkered in HyperCard when I was five years old and am willing to bet there are some other folks who started young out there. (Some children probably started with Roger Wagner's HyperStudio, which was an even friendlier version of HyperCard that supported color, something that was difficult with Apple's program).
I still use HyperCard whenever I need to string together something to use as a program, bringing my iBook G3 along to use the stacks with. I develop with HyperCard 2.4.1 (I have the CD-ROM version of 2.3 and used Apple's updater from their website to bring it up to date). The HyperCard player is still on Apple's website and SuperCard is still out there to do what HyperCard used to--on OS X, no less.
I have used Code Warrior to program in C++. I used it at a computer camp on a PPC machine running OS 9.2.2 and felt it was a decent C++ environment. I used a Microsoft complier (on Win2K) in another C++ class I took and wasn't as impressed with it as I was with Code Warrior. I can't say I've done any C++ programming in about six years, but if I ever found a copy of Code Warrior for sale I'd have to consider getting back into it.
Does anyone have any comparisons between Code Warrior and Think C? I had wanted Think C in the 1990s but it was out of the price range for a Christmas gift for a nine year old (which is when I first read a book about programming in C using the compiler). I wound up getting SimCity 2000 (the CD Collection) that year instead (which was one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever).