Books for learning SuperCard and SuperTalk

One book that stands out for SuperCard is Beginning SuperCard Programming by Larry T. Kuhn. It comes with a CD-ROM and a very comprehensive tutorial. Published by InfoSilo (1996) it provides a good way to begin.

InfoSilo
1187 Gross St.
Arcata, CA, 95521, USA
infosilo@humboldt1.com

However, since SuperCard is closely related to HyperCard, using over 90 percent the same scripting, it's worth looking at some of the HyperCard books. There are literally dozens of books that will teach you HyperCard and HyperTalk.

Here are some that I have used over the years. Some of these have later editions too. (The ones marked* have disks with example stacks).

If I had to choose just one of these books I'd go for

The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook by Danny Goodman

HyperCard 2.3 in a Hurry	George Beekman	1995
HyperCard 2.2 in a Hurry	George Beekman	1994
The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook	Danny Goodman	1993
HyperProgramming*	Colouris & Thimbleby	1993
Cool Mac Stacks*	David Drucker	1992
HyperTalk and HyperText	Tony Stanley	1992
HyperTalk 2.2 The Book	Winkler & Kamins &Devoto	1992
The Complete Book of HyperTalk 2	Dan Shafer	1991
Multimedia Design With HyperCard	Stephen Wilson	1991
HyperTalk 2.0 The Book	Winkler & Kamins	1990
Cooking with HyperTalk 2.0*	Winkler & Kamins	1990
Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters*	The Waite Group	1989
HyperCard : The Complete Reference	Stephen L. Michel	1989
HyperTalk	Lon Poole	1988

Helpful Projects

• Xtend, dozens of external commands to enhance SuperCard
• Buttons Sample, learn about buttons
• Menus Sample, learn about menus
• Sound Sample, learn about using sound
• Windows Sample, learn about windows
• SuperTalk Reference, an interactive reference to SuperTalk