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From: ROBIN@applelink.apple.com (Robin Shank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Good books on HyperCard (was Re: Goodman's HC2 book complete?)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:54:10 GMT
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In article <3916@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@stone.Princeton.EDU (Brian 
Kendig) writes:
      [ some stuff about books deleted }

> >Cooking with HyperTalk 2.0 by Dan Winkler and Scott Knaster
> >(P/N: T0398LL/A, $39.95)
> 
> This one, as its preface states, is for people who want to begin
> learning serious scripting.  I've looked at it briefly -- it has a
> very friendly, winning tone to it that I liked.  (The handler for `on
> veggieSoup' was nice -- could someone who has the book email me the
> text of that?  It's *cute*.)  It also comes with a disk of stacks to
> work with.
> 

Thanks.  : )     I wrote it on a whim for Dan.  I reread it the other 
day and realized it calls _cucumbers_ as a soup ingredient.  Oops.

> >HyperTalk 2.0: The Book by Dan Winkler and Scot Kamins
> >(P/N: T0399LL/A, $29.95)
> 
> The only caveat to getting one of these books is that all three were
> written and published before HyperCard 2.0 was finished.  There may be
> a few things that have changed between Then and Now (like, is it true
> that they released HC2 so late because they realized that the manuals
> didn't mention its color capability, and so they had to take the color
> out?), so maybe the books are only 99 and 44/100 per cent faithful,
> but they're excellent in every other regard.

True.  Any HC 2.0 book that you will find in a bookstore now, went to 
press long before HyperCard did.  The best place to find the final word on 
HyperTalk is the HyperTalk Help stack, shipping with the full HC 
configuration.  This stack was kept up-to-date right until we went final.

Also, Danny has published a stack on compuserve that contains additions 
and corrections to his 2.0 Handbook.

Robin Shank
HyperCard 2.0 Stack Engineer
Apple Computer

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