Simple programming on the Mac

Is there a simple way of producing coloured geometric shapes (squares, circles, triangles, polygons etc.) on my MacBook Pro without buying and learning software like C++?

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12.PB. (Rev A). & 15" MBP (Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

12.PB. (Rev A). & MBP, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Mar 11, 2007 2:00 PM

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Mar 11, 2007 3:02 PM in response to Graham Fielder

Try any type of drawing or painting application. You'll find many at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.



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Mar 11, 2007 3:03 PM in response to Graham Fielder

Your question is a little unclear.

You can draw these shapes using Freehand, Iiiistrator or similer, but if you mention programming then a simpler programming language is Realbasic, you can use it to make a program that draws these shapes for you, but you need to learn realbasic which is a lot easier than learniing C or similer.

Freehand:
http://www.adobe.com/products/freehand/

Illustrator:
http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/

Realbasic:
http://realsoftware.com

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Mar 12, 2007 12:56 AM in response to Graham Fielder

There's also quartz composer - you can do some pretty cool stuff with it. As for programming languages/environments, RealBasic (as previously mentioned) is pretty easy to pick up; there's also SuperCard ( http://www.supercard.us/), which is a breeze to learn.

BTW, you don't need to buy a C compiler or IDE to develop on the Mac - XCode is free. As a bonus, Objective-C is much easier to learn than C++.

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