Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days)
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Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days)
by Michael Amundsen, Curtis Smith
Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days)
By Michael Amundsen, Curtis Smith
Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 1080
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 067231018X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780672310188
Binding: Paperback
Summary: A confusing book at best, and the publisher doesn’t care?
Rating: 1
When I read a book, I capture grammatical errors to send to the editors for the ‘next edition’. I collected quite a few early on and decided to send what I had collected so far.
The email addresses listed as publisher contacts for this book came back as ‘unknown’. I began to wonder: Did they have so many complaint emails they canceled the email accounts?
I pushed on through the book to discover coding errors in the examples as well.
I give this book a `thumbs down’ and will avoid buying SAMS publishing books in the future.
(If I had known about Amazon’s rating system at the time I purchased the book, I would have avoided this loss of good $)
Summary: Excellent source for beginners
Rating: 4
I found this book to be a very good source for database programming, especially for beginners. I not only went through all 21 days of lessons but also return to the book frequently as a help resource.
Summary: Simply The Best
Rating: 5
This was simply the best resource I’ve ever seen concerning Visual Basic 5. Keep up the good work.
Summary: Solid introduction book to VB DB programming
Rating: 4
I don’t know why other reviewers don’t like the book. Actually, I bought all three editions of the book, from VB 4 to VB 6. The book covered most important contents for building VB DB apps, with a lot of useful warnings and tips. Though I have done some VB DB programming before, I found useful info in every chapter which clarifies some issues or teaches some tricks. Give one example, I have tried to use MaskedEdit as a bound control but encountered abnormality when updating records. I spent several hours trying to bypass the error with coding without any luck. Later I happened to find (in this book) that all I need to do is to set the “PromptInclude” property to False. That tip alone already worths the price to me.
Aside from the goodies, I found the VisData chapter not so interesting. That’s not quite related to programming. Also I’d like to see a chapter talking about VB/VBA DB programming, differences and relations.
Summary: And I thought it was just me!
Rating: 2
This is the second book I’ve bought on VB, the first one being an introductory book on everything I need to know about the basics of VB. But since I wanted to focus on database programming, I bought this book and read through it, confused most of the time. Running the sample codes didn’t help either. I thought it was only my inexperience with the language that is causing the trouble, thank goodness I found that the other more experienced readers of the book also had similar experiences. I tried swallowing the text up until Chapter 10 and then I finally gave up. If you ask me how I would describe the writing and organization of this book, frustrating would come to mind. I finally gave up and bought another book!
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