Re: Good book to learn AppleScript?
Re: Good book to learn AppleScript?
- Subject: Re: Good book to learn AppleScript?
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:45:36 +0000
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:52:50 -0800, Evan Chaney <email@hidden> wrote:
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I was looking on Amazon.com at the list of books available on AppleScript
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and most are out of print or out of date. Are there any good books anyone
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could recommend for learning AppleScript?
Bill Brigg's columns at Maccentral -
http://maccentral.macworld.com/columns/briggs.shtml
You may at this point quibble that this is not a book. However, it is
interactive, covers a huge range of topics, introduces you to the topic
gently yet effectively, the scripts can be copied and run directly on your
machine....
You can also print out the columns and read them "offline" as I believe it
is quaintly known.
It can be useful if you bring a bit of programming experience, though Bill
takes you through the mysteries (if they seem that way to you) of
object-oriented programming in the course of various things.
Cheaper than any old book, too. And fully interactive - the author has been
known to reply to queries (thanks Bill!) and is on this list too. He may
not have thought of what he's produced as a book, but at 50
episodes/chapters/whatever, there's little reason to doubt that it stands
up there with any "book" book.
Charles
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