Young Ideas The Rogue PenApps Workbook (Document)

The Rogue PenApps Workbook is a self-training guide written by Catherine Young and published by Young Ideas Software Design Services.¹ The firm, based in Sausalito, California, holds the workbook's 1993 copyright.² Its title page describes it as Self-Training for PenApps for PenPoint Using PenAppsDBMS and xBase, teaching developers to build applications for GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system using PenApps, the pen-application development tool from Slate Corporation.¹

The workbook is organized into two self-training tracks.³ The first runs to eight exercises covering PenApps for PenPoint using the native PenAppsDBMS — from "Practice with the Tools" through objects and settings, debugging, programming the objects, showing and manipulating data, the Schema Tool, and a finished product.³ The second track adds a single ninth exercise, an xBase Tutorial, covering PenApps for PenPoint using the add-on xBase engine.³

The workbook presents itself as a companion to Slate's PenApps Developer's Guide and Reference Manual, which it tells readers are also required to program a PenApps application.⁴ It describes PenApps as a software-development tool that runs in an object-oriented environment and programs in the PenBasic language.⁴ For interface design, it directs developers to GO Corporation's PenPoint User Interface Design Reference.⁵

Young Ideas sold the workbook directly for $30.00 per copy, plus California sales tax and shipping, and shipped each order with a 3.5-inch floppy disk holding the exercises' database and TIFF images.² Orders went to the firm's Sausalito office at 207 Second Street, with discounts offered on volume orders of ten or more.²

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