Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Hypertalk instructional book request Keywords: hypertalk, book Message-ID: <17537@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 22 Sep 88 15:35:55 GMT References: <3074@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <69395@sun.uucp> Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) Distribution: na Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 17 In article <69395@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >o Carol Kaehler's "HyperCard Power: Techniques and Scripts" -- a really > neat book, both an introduction and a design/scripting book. > Most other books generally talk about scripting, but don't > really get into stack design (or they do and the author > doesn't really have a good design sense). The first book I > would give any new person, and if I could only own one book, > this would be it. >o Gary Bond's XCMD's for HyperCard -- Only if you're going to do some > serious HyperCard programming, of course. In my list of books submitted yesterday I forgot these two, as I was thinking more of strict HyperTalk books. I agree with Chuq that these are good books, each for a variation on a theme of HyperTalk programming, Carol's for stack design and Gary's for getting into XCMDs. Dan Allen