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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
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In article <243taylorj@byuvax.bitnet> taylorj@byuvax.bitnet writes:
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>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.


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