lemay@lorelei.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay) (08/26/89)
This is a list of books which people from all over have recommended to me for learning NeWS. For those of you who forgot, this list will be a bibliography to be put into future NeWS documentation. Now here's another call for comments -- which of these books are the most important, which are helpful, and which are totally useless? Lets hear it... And of you know any of the authors here that I have in questions marks, let me know... Required Reading: News Manual News Programmer's Guide Adobe PostScript Books: Red, blue, green The NeWS Book (Gosling, Rosenthal, Arden) PostScript: Inside PostScript (Merritt, Braswell) Understanding PS programming (?) PostScript Programmer's Reference Guide Real World PostScript (?) The PostScript Journal Object-Oriented Programming & SmallTalk: Object-Oriented Programming on the Macintosh (Schmucker) A Taste of SmallTalk (Kaehler & Patterson) An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and SmallTalk (Wiener & Pinson) OOP in Common Lisp (Keen) Object Oriented Software Construction (Meyer) C++ Primer (Lippman) IEEE tutorials on OOP (Peterson) 1987 Journal of Object-Oriented Programing OOPSLA proceedings Etc: Unix Networking (?) Methodology of Window Management (Hopgood) Windows Usenix Tutorial (Rosenthal) Sun User's Group SEX tape (??) -- news-tape section -Laura Lemay lemay%lorelei@sun.com Redhead. Drummer. Geek.
ramani@PATIENCE.STANFORD.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) (08/27/89)
> Now here's another call for comments -- which of these books are the > most important, which are helpful, and which are totally useless? > Lets hear it... My nomination for most useful books: 1. The NeWS Book (Gosling, et. al). If there is only one book to have, this is it. 2. The "Blue" Book (Adobe). The definitive introduction to PostScript. 3. NeWS Application Scenario (Sun). Before the NeWS book was around, this was the ONLY way to learn how to write a real application. 4. Real World PostScript (Stephen F. Roth, Addison Wesley). Explains a lot of useful information about PostScript that Adobe doesn't mention. Also, this is a good book for learning a lot of practical information such as writing truly portable PostScript programs. Most useless (or most confusing) book for learning NeWS: 1. The NeWS Manual (Sun). A joke (at least for learning). Good only as a reference. By the way, I'm still interested in knowing if future releases of NeWS from Sun will also include the NeWS book by Gosling. I think it would be a big mistake not to include it. Ramani Pichumani Department of Computer Science, Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA Tel:(415)723-2902 Fax:(415)725-7411 ramani@na-net.stanford.edu or uunet!na-net.stanford.edu!ramani@uunet.UU.NET