zz1he@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU (Heather Ebey) (03/03/89)
I read some months back in MacWeek that Dan Winkler is writing a book on HyperCard. Does anyone know who is publishing it, when it will be out, audience expected and name of book? It could be that MacWeek has updated their information, but I haven't had time to read it cover to cover each time. --Heather Ebey ----------hebey@ucsd (Internet, Bitnet, UUCP )------------- Heather Ebey, Micro Support Voice: (619) 534-2448 UCSD, Academic Computing Center, C-010, La Jolla, CA. 92093
thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) (03/04/89)
I haven't seen the winkler book but I did pick up the Waite group's book which is excellent. I always go nuts trying to find what I want in Dan Shaffer's book , the Waite book is very good. If you want to learn HyperTalk well this is the book to have. Thom Gillespie
dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) (03/04/89)
In article <28287@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) writes: >I haven't seen the winkler book but I did pick up the Waite group's book which >is excellent. I always go nuts trying to find what I want in Dan Shaffer's book Well, I haven't seen either of these, but I've found Danny Goodman's "The Complete HyperCard Handbook" to be excellent. It's fairly easy reading, and is organized very well. -- David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (03/05/89)
Dan Winkler is working on two books, I believe with Bantam Books. They are still in the works. For what it is worth, the most useful of all of the HyperTalk books out there for my money is Lon Poole's "Programmer's Quick Reference Guide to HyperTalk" published by Microsoft Press. It is only $5.95, is compact, and covers HyperTalk very well. It is NOT a tutorial, but once you get the hang of HyperTalk, it is REAL useful. Dan Allen Apple Computer
phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) (03/06/89)
I just saw an ad for yet another hypertalk book, Dr. Dobb's Essential Hypertalk
Handbook. The author is Michael Swaine, who writes the Card Tricks column in
MacUser. And, of course, Dr. Dobb has a good name. Does anybody know if the
book is any good? Are there other books that do a better job at covering the
same ground?
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In article <3779@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson) writes: >I just saw an ad for yet another hypertalk book, Dr. Dobb's Essential Hypertalk >Handbook. The author is Michael Swaine, who writes the Card Tricks column in >MacUser. And, of course, Dr. Dobb has a good name. Does anybody know if the > > * ** Scott Robert Anderson gatech!emoryu1!phssra > * * * ** phssra@unix.cc.emory.edu phssra@emoryu1.bitnet I don't know about Dr. Dobb's book, but I purchased the Waite Group's _HyperTalk Bible_ and Lon Poole's _Hypertalk_. As much as I've gotten into them, both are very good books. Poole's is a 137 page quick reference guide organized by keyword. It has the command, syntax and and example of use for each command. Waite's is a very large book organized by topic. I was particularly interested in the chapters on visuals and simulation for this communications tutorial that I am writing. I'm still looking forward to publication of Winkler's book. He was my TA in 68000 Assembly language on the thin Mac at Harvard during the summer of 1984. If he is as good at writing as he was in explaining 68000 and Mac Toolboxes, it should be a very good book. --Heather Ebey ----------hebey@ucsd (Internet, Bitnet, UUCP )-------------- Heather Ebey, Micro Support Voice: (619) 534-2448 UCSD, Academic Computing Center, C-010, La Jolla, CA. 92093 ---------------All views expressed are my own---------------