I guess it wouldn’t be too complicated for me to build the script I asked for in the topic ”Script for setting defer date” myself if I knew a little more about Applescript, so that is my other question, as I also would be interested in general: does anybody know of a good book to start learning Applescript completely from the beginning with, a book that doesn’t require any previous programming knowledge?
Here’s the link to your other topic.
I don’t know about a book but the best way I’ve found to pick up programming languages is to find existing code and work through it. Google each piece until you understand it. That’s how I picked it up.
Lynda.com has some Applescript tutorials
http://www.lynda.com/AppleScript-training-tutorials/1970-0.html
Screencast Online also has some here:
http://www.screencastsonline.com/search/?s=applescript
They are membership sites. You can get a one month membership. I think there are also some trial periods available as well.
There’s another web site:
http://macosxautomation.com/applescript/firsttutorial/index.html
If you open your iBooks app, you can search for Applescript and see some Applescript books for sale and some free ones as well.
Good hunting…
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Thanks for the links! Even if I prefer books, which may contain more information and let me more easily go back to specific parts, I tried Lynda.com, liked it, and learned some important Applescript basics from it.
I also searched for books at Amazon. I found one called ”Applescript 1-2-3”, written by Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman. It certainly looked promising when I saw that Soghoian was product manager for automation technologies at Apple. The book seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, it just felt so strangely familiar to me. I started looking in my bookshelves, and in the end of one shelf I found it! Apparently I had bought it some years ago. I guess I have been a bit too busy these last years… Now I started immediately to read it.
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