Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
- Subject: Re: AS adoption barriers [Starter Kit]
- From: Phil Dobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:56:57 +0100
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:27:05 -0700
Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
wrote:
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Does anyone here bother to read the online help? You know, the stuff in the
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"Help" menu? Go to the Finder, choose "Help Center" from the Help menu, and
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click on "AppleScript Help." Right under "Getting Started", there's Why Use
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AppleScript, Want to Know More (a pointer to Apple's AppleScript web site, which
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has all of Sal's guidebooks and links to external resources including Script
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Debugger, Smile, the AppleScript Sourcebook, and this list), and other links
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will take you to all sorts of samples. Looks pretty useful to me...
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--Chris Nebel
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AppleScript Engineering
I can't help but agree. Along with all these resources, if you invest GBP60 in "AS
Handbook" and "AS in a Nutshell", (cheaper of course Stateside), you've got pretty
much _everything_ you need (written, in the most, in plain english to boot).
Maybe I'm biased. I ploughed through "Introduction To MPW", "Building and Managing
Programs in MPW", Inside Macintosh's "Debugging Macintosh Software with MacsBug"
(with original 800K floppy with seal unbroken!) plus I've d/l'd _all_ (well,
nearly all) the .pdf's from the Inside Mac. series (have _not_ read them all, of
course).
Compared to that kind of documentation (although extremely thorough and invaluable
for using MPW, ToolServer and SourceServer and writing 68K and PPC programs for
the Mac), the AS stuff is clear, concise and eminently understanderble by almost
anybody.
As has been posted previously, it's down to the user in the end. If you sit
somebody down and show them, they're amazed. Left alone, they won't bother.
Regards,
Phil.