Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!virginia!uvacs!hsd From: hsd@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Harry S. Delugach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Reviews of HyperCard books Message-ID: <2712@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 88 19:00:05 GMT References: <243taylorj@byuvax.bitnet> Reply-To: hsd@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu.UUCP (Harry S. Delugach) Organization: U.Va. CS dept. Charlottesville, VA Lines: 21 In article <243taylorj@byuvax.bitnet> taylorj@byuvax.bitnet writes: > >What with the recent spurt of new HyperCard references, tutorials, >introductions, etc., I'm trying to find out what's useful, what's ok, and >what's trash. Could those of you familiar with any of these new books please >post opinions or recommendataions? "Concise Guide to HyperTalk", by Barry Shell (MIS Press) was the cheapest book I could find on HyperTalk (about $12). For someone just starting out on HyperCard, this is a good summary and reference, but it gives away very few secrets, and doesn't have much practical advice. It has approx. one page per command/property/function and only slightly enhances the info found in the Help Stack which we all got for free with HC. If you knew nothing about HC, and very little about programming, this might be a good book to start with, but you'd quickly outgrow it. -- Harry S. Delugach University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science INTERNET: hsd@cs.virginia.edu BITNET: hsd2x@virginia UUCP: ..!uunet!virginia!uvacs!hsd CompuServe: 72727,2363