Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jk3t+ From: jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: NEW HYPERCARD BOOKS? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 14:38:48 GMT References: <6065@bgsuvax.UUCP>, <4L9Nm1w162w@tosh.uucp> Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: <4L9Nm1w162w@tosh.uucp> starta@tosh.uucp (John Starta) writes: > maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner) writes: > > > What books, other than Apple's, will cover the new features of HyperCard? > > Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc., under the Bantam Computer Books > name, has three new books on HyperCard 2.0. Unfortunately, the titles are > unknown at this time [by myself]. I have already seen one of the books, entitled "Cooking with Hypercard 2.0", which features Dan Winkler as a co-author. This book deals with basic and more advanced Hypertalk programming techniques, and seemed pretty nice if pricey (although you also get a disk full of stacks). You should be warned, however, that despite the title, this book is *not* specific to HC 2.0, and doesn't seem to include much if any information about new features in Hypertalk. That doesn't, of course, mean it's a bad book. The other 2 books, which I haven't seen and may not even be released as of 10:30 am Monday morning, seem to be more oriented towards HC 2.0. The first one is the new revised edition of Danny Goodman's book, and the other is a guide to Hypertalk by Dan Winkler. I assume the Goodman book will be similar in spirit to his first handbook, while I can only guess the Winkler book might be more of a reference work that also concentrates on scripting issues. > You might try calling Bantam and see if > they have firmed anything up yet, or call your local bookstore and ask for > new Bantam arrivals. Last time I called Bantam (about 4 weeks ago) they were saying delivery on Goodman's book would be middle of July. At that time, I didn't know that the other two books existed. But, since HC 2.0 hasn't seen a wide release yet, the schedule might have slipped some. > John jking [sorry, but I can't find the Bantam 1-800 number]