Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript Books Summary: a diffrent order Message-ID: <1596@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 23:35:22 GMT References: <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: comp.lang.postscript Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 24 In article <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, henry@hourglass.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes: > > Beginners should start with `Learning PostScript -- A > Visual Approach' by Ross Smith, Peachpit Press, and then go This one is a new one on me. I think I'll go look it up. As for the rest of these, I would recommend a slightly diffrent order. I started with the Blue and Red books, because that was all that was available. I would strongly urge the reading of the GREEN book first, then the Blue book, with the Red book for reference. Finaly go to the Orange book and the black font book. The Green book goes into a lot of programming philosophy. To write truely good programs, one needs to develop a good programming gestalt first. The Green book does this, and does it very well. While I don't agree with the coding style (I prefer a more PASCAL like structure), the technical content of the book is the best of any of them. Once you have read the Green book, then sit down and program, but not until. > Cheers Woody