PenPoint Programming (Book)
PenPoint Programming was a hands-on programming tutorial by Andy Novobilski, published by Addison-Wesley, teaching developers how to build applications for GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system. The book introduced PenPoint from a programmer's perspective, showing how its predefined application-building framework produced software with standardized behavior, reusable system-level components, and greater functionality.
Through in-depth examples, it covered PenPoint's Application Framework, the Notebook User Interface, and the handwriting-recognition process, demonstrating more than 30 PenPoint classes in working applications. Novobilski, a consultant specializing in object-oriented programming and pen-based technology and a coauthor of Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach with Brad Cox, framed pen-based application design as distinct from mouse-based design.
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Artifact Details
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Andy Novobilski
United States
English
1992
$26.95 (USA), $34.95 (Canada)
Perfect-bound printed book.
Table of Contents
- What's with the Pen?
- The Class Manager
- Application Building
- The Application Framework
- The Calculator Example
- Constructing a User Itnerface
- Using the Pen
- A Crossword Puzzle
- Coordinating Views
- WYSIWYG GUIs
- Background Reading
- Source Code for the Crossword Application
- Index
Approx 7.5" x 9" (385 pages)
0-201-60833-2
FRUTPSISHC
1992
Purchased
$26.95
2026-06-22
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