Re: Reference ?
Re: Reference ?
- Subject: Re: Reference ?
- From: JoAnne Sorlie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:44:34 -0500
A couple of months ago I purchased the Rosenthal and Sanderson book. It is reasonably concise, pretty well organized, has a good index, and is recently published so it applies to the current version of the OS. The 1st 3 books on Ed's list are recent enough that I would have considered purchasing them; I believe I selected the Rosenthal & Sanderson book because a proper (i.e. not a pirated copy printed somewhere in the third world on bad paper without paying royalties to the authors) copy was available by mail order for a reasonable price.
It explains the concepts behind all the terminology and hierarchies very nicely. You don't have to read the whole 1000+ pages to figure out what you need to do simple things, although I would love to take the book to the beach someday and read the whole thing. Also, it's not a such a basic level that you get bored. (My physician husband thinks it's a hopelessly technical book!) The code snippets included are just whatever is needed to illustrate the points.
Thirty years ago I made a nice living as a programmer on ibm mainframes. Now I have lots of other things I need to do, but still often want to make the computer do things it isn't prepared to do right out of the box. So I'm very rusty, but not unknowledgeable.
Hope this helps!
Jo
Okemos, Michigan
> Ed,
>
> Thank you very much for the reply.
>
> The problem is that I have already found all those references :)
> What I want is personal advice (eventually offlist) on the good and the bad, or rather, on the good and the best :)
>
> The online reference is pretty good as far as I can tell, but I'd really like to have something I can read on a chair because that's how I process complex things better.
>
> Eventually, even something like the Oreilly Pocket Guides would work. I just need to be able to be off the computer with that thing.
>
> Jean-Christophe
>> <snip>
>> Mark Conway Munro, "AppleScript (Developer Reference)", Wiley (2010); ISBN
>> 978-0-470-56229-1
>>
>> Hanaan Rosenthal & Hamish Sanderson, Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive
>> Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X, Third Edition, Apress (2010);
>> ISBN 978-1-4302-2361-0
>>
>> Sal Soghoian & Bill Cheeseman, Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3,
>> Peachpit Press (2009); ISBN 0-321-14931-9
>>
>> Matt Neuburg, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly Media (2006); ISBN
>> 0-596-10211-9
>>
>> Jerry Lee Ford Jr., AppleScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner,
>> Course Technology (2007); ISBN 978-1-59863-384-9
>>
>> Adam Goldstein, AppleScript: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media (2005); ISBN
>> 0-596-00850-3
>>
>> Tom Trinko, AppleScript for Dummies, For Dummies (2004); ISBN
>> 978-0-7645-7494-8
>>
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