Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780679758068 ISBN: 0679758062 Label: Random House Information Group Manufacturer: Random House Information Group Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: January 17, 1995 Publisher: Random House Information Group Sales Rank: 1374699 Studio: Random House Information Group
Product DescriptionThis complete book/disk package shows the reader how to customize and extend the capabilities of any Macintosh computer--no programming experience needed! This enhanced and expanded edition focuses on putting AppleScript to work in all sorts of practical situations. Goodman also shows how to apply the same principles to other popular scripting systems. Disk contains utilities and ready-to-use scripts.
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Rating: - An AppleScript guide that actually teaches you how to USE AppleScript
I loved Danny Goodman's Complete HyperCard Handbook and have relied on it for years. So when I wanted to learn what is really going on in AppleScript and how to do things with it, I figured I could count on Goodman. I was not disappointed. I had already read the entire reference manual on AppleScript put out by Apple but was still almost clueless as to how to use AppleScript successfully. My beef with most books that purport to teach you how to use a scripting language is that they simply lay out ... Read More
Rating: - Absolute "bible" for AppleScript.
Danny Goodman's absolute treatise on AppleScript. The definitive, must have bible for learning, using, living with AppleScript.
Danny's easy-to-read and insightful tomb. This takes you from absolutely clueless to programming in as little as a month. Danny starts with theory then delivers pratical, real world solutions as examples.
Many books eschew the object oriented underpinnnings of AppleScript, often assuming (wrongly) the customer already knows OOP (Object Oriented ... Read More
Rating: - THE both AppleScript Tutorial and Reference
When I wanted to learn Applescript I bought serveral books, included this one. This book gave me clear insight in the AppleScript mechanisms but also why I should use it. It is been a reference since and I don't travel/develop without it.
Rating: - A good refernce to the growing world of applescript.
Those familiar with Goodman¹s ³Complete HyperCard Handbook² will feel right at home with this comprehensive look at AppleScript. His style moves beginners through the rough first stages of the learning process with a quick look at the basics of the language and cogent metaphors that help convey the underlying structure of AppleScript. His early chapters are easy to follow, but present the nuts and bolts of the language in a way experienced programmers will appreciate.
Perhaps the strongest point of ... Read More
