A Personal Pantagraph

Overall rating: 4/5
Jim Elferdink’s iWork’05, a new entry in the Missing Manual series, is a gentle introduction to Apple’s productivity suite. My faith in this series was shaken a bit by the AppleScript book, but this book renewed it. The writing style is clear, and it steers away (mostly) from unnecessary humor. [...]

The first generation of computer scientists weren’t. They came from engineering, mathematics, physics, and other disciplines. And they brought their problems with them! A “computer scientist” could apply computer skills to engineering or math or physics and still be a computer scientist. As the discipline of computer science has grown, so [...]