Index
The manuals that come with the latest version of HyperCard (version 2.3) are excellent and they may be all you need.
Among multimedia programs or authoring tools HyperCard is unique in terms of the shear quantity of books that have been published. 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 |
The full version of HyperCard comes with very useful stacks
- HyperCard Help and Help Extras, just as the names suggest
- Audio Help, you need this for making sound resources
- Art Bits, Background Art, copy what you like
- Readymade Buttons, Readymade Fields and Stack Templates
- QuickTime Tools, learn to use and control QuickTime in your stacks
- Color Tools, you need this for colour in your stacks
- Power Tools, for making palettes and moving resources and more
- HyperTalk Reference, an interactive reference to HyperTalk
| HyperExtras | David Donachie | 1994 |
| HyperLarry's PowerHome | Larry Morton | 1994 |
| HyperCard Defined | Ken Dunham | 1993 |
| Universal Card Copier | Kevin Forsberg-Lary | 1993 |
| Pict Tools | Bryan McCormick (Hub City Software) | 1991 |
| StackDetective | Joost Verhaar | 1991 |
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- HyperTalk Dictionary by George Coyne (1988)
For comments and suggestions email mark.gregory@mq.edu.au