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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)
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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