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AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Author: Matt Neuburg

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide teaches not only how the AppleScript language works, but also how to use it in all sorts of contexts -- in everyday scripts to process automation, as well as in AppleScript Studio, in Cocoa, in CGI scripts, and in combination with Perl and Ruby. Once you know the ins and outs of AppleScript, there's a lot you can do with it, and this book unlocks the secrets of AppleScript.

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I would recommend it to all Macintosh owners as the perfect way to unleash another powerful aspect of your system. For people who have no AppleScript or programming experience who want to be totally spoon fed this book is probably only a 5, for people with a little AppleScript experience, a fair amount of programming experience and a willingness to stick through to the end this book is probably a 9. It is certainly the best book on AppleScript I have seen.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	AppleScript Overview
1	Ways to Use AppleScript	3
2	Places to Use AppleScript	16
3	The AppleScript Experience	39
4	Basic Concepts	65
Pt. II	The AppleScript Language
5	Introducing AppleScript	97
6	Syntactic Ground of Being	104
7	Variables	113
8	Handlers	140
9	Script Objects	159
10	Objects	184
11	References	206
12	Control	218
13	Datatypes	243
14	Coercions	264
15	Operators	272
16	Global Properties	285
17	Constants	289
18	Commands	292
Pt. III	AppleScript In Action
19	Dictionaries	297
20	Scripting Additions	332
21	Scriptable Applications	349
22	Unscriptable Applications	356
23	Unix	362
24	Writing Applications	370
Pt. IV	Appendixes
A	The 'aeut' Resource	405
B	Tools and Resources	424
	Index	431

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More about Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Author: Karl E Wiegers

Have you ever delivered software that satisfied all of the project specifications, but failed to meet any of the customers' expectations? Without formal, verifiable requirements-and a system for managing them-the result is often a gap between what developers think they're supposed to build and what customers think they're going to get. Too often, lessons about software requirements engineering processes are formal or academic, and not of value to real-world, professional development teams. In More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues And Practical Advice, the author of Software Requirements, Second Edition, describes even more practical techniques for gathering and managing the software requirements that help you meet project specifications and customer expectations. A leading speaker and consultant in the field of requirements engineering, Karl Wiegers takes questions raised by other professional software developers and architects as a basis for the practical solutions and best practices offered in this guide. Succinct and immediately useful, this book is a must-have for developers and architects.