Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Danny Goodman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 17, 1995

This 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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This 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Random House Information Group; 2 Pap/Dis edition (January 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679758062
• ISBN-13: 978-0679758068
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,454,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute "bible" for AppleScript., April 12, 1998

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Scott D. Sauer (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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 Programming). Danny goes through object-oriented programming with outstanding lucidity comprehensible to everyone.

After laying the foundation, Danny dives into addressing the issue by issue in AppleScript including referencing, coercion, looping, optimizations, object-store, and so so much more. The depth of AppleScript is only limited by your imagination.

Many programming books are considered authorities, the last stop, first stop, definitive source everyone turns to. Danny Goodman's _AppleScript Handbook_ is that. If you want to learn AppleScript the right way so your can use it, adapt it, relearn it, and reapply it from application to application, then you *must* own this book.

-Scott

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good refernce to the growing world of applescript., September 26, 1995

By A Customer

This review is from: Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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 the book is the reference section. Variables, operators, and commands are presented in a well organized way, with all the information on function and format close at hand. It is this section one will flip through again and again in the process of exploring the first few scripts, and the enclosed disk is packed with utilities and samples to get started on.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE both AppleScript Tutorial and Reference, February 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Danny Goodman's Applescript Handbook, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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.