Re: Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
Re: Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
- Subject: Re: Reading "AppleScript, the definitive guide"
- From: Chuck 5566 <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:23:33 -0600
FWIW, I have professionally used many computer languages and in every case but
one, I have not found there to be one book that was truly definitive. For each
language I’ve used, I have about a half-dozen books, because not one contains
all the answers. And for each new language, I’ve started with a “for dummies”
or “learn in 24hours” type of book.
This is not meant to be a critique of any one book. I come out of the shadows
to pass this along in the hopes you’ll not get too discouraged and will keep
plodding on. :-)
(And I’ve not needed any book for that one language only because I’ve coded in
it for over 30 years.)
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ok, I tried and I failed. I read the book *super* seriously until page 150
> and then I decided that the book was not for me.
>
> Neuburg is honest, he writes on page 149 that SICP is the best computer book
> ever written, and he is not the only one to think like this. What I fail to
> understand is if he thinks that way, why did he not even try to emulate what
> made SICP that good?
>
> It is fine to write books for the 1%ers. The people who really get why it is
> important to nest or not nest script object definitions in handlers in script
> object definitions again and again, or whatever. But really, in what world is
> *that* what people call "a thorough introduction to AppleScript basics"? And
> why does that have to be what the first 150 pages are about?
>
> I am neither "new" to Applescript nor do I feel like I know everything about
> the language. If those are the only 2 targets of the book, as the back cover
> page seems to suggest, then I should have been warned. But really,
> advertising that book as *the* place to go for new users is an insult to new
> users.
>
> I'm hoping my next buy will be more useful for somebody who want to actually
> thoroughly learn the language and *then* understand the big picture.
>
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
> -----------------------------------------------
> @brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com
>
>
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