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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: getting started
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Date: 3 Jul 89 07:04:22 GMT
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Reply-To: flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers)
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I'm sure it has been discussed before, but there is such a plethora of
books about hypercard that selecting from them is difficult.  What
books would one recommend using to get going on it?  In browsing
through available books, many of them seem to be just restatements of
manuals, and many seem to use a lot of words to explain a small number
of things very slowly.  My impressions are that it is just a matter of
learning the specifics and diving in.  However, I think doing so would
be facilitated by one or two good books.  I would really like books
that are targeted for someone who already knows how to program well,
that are concise, and that are full of lots of pragmatic information
in addition to reference manual level information.

Is there anything worthwhile about SuperCard?  I've been looking at
that too.  It has a lot of appeal, in spite of the cumbersomeness of
SuperEdit.
 
All recommendations are sincerely appreciated.  (Report to the net, or
if I get a lot of email I'll summarize.)

thanks,
Margot Flowers 
Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU 
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