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Summary: Good Concept, Bad Implementation
Review: I bought this book because it was the only one that actually seemed to tell me where to start. I have LOTS of experience in programming with procedural languages but was bewildered by an environment where snippets of code are attached to one control but need to reference some other control. I found this book helpful because it began at the very beginning and worked through the basic concepts quickly. HOWEVER, I don't know that I can recommend the book. It is for the absolute beginner in sense that it goes into very little depth but someone with little programming experience probably will not get much out of it. Compounding the problem is the fact that there are a lot of errors. With my experience, I could tell when something was an error but it could be confusing to a newbie. This book has value for the experienced procedural programmer with little event-driven experience but even for that audience it could have been much better.
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Summary: What! No Experience Required!
Review: I can't beleive that they put "for the absolute beginner" This was the hardest reference book that I have ever used. I know a little about VBA programming and I was swearing at the book for hours. I have to write to the Publisher.
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Summary: What! No Experience Required!
Review: I can't beleive that they put "for the absolute beginner" This was the hardest reference book that I have ever used. I know a little about VBA programming and I was swearing at the book for hours. I have to write to the Publisher.
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Summary: Mixed thoughts
Review: I have mixed thoughts for this book since so far it has brought me through to learning VBA for Access. I would recommend this book for someone that is already an intermediate Access user that knows all about the Access objects(tables,forms,queries,reports...etc.) and how to create them without a wizard. In other words a person like me that went so far as building a few apps by just using the wizards and macros but needed to add some detailed logic to the next project. That is where VBA was needed for me and this book is great from that prospective. It has held my hand through VBA basics so far, I am almost done with the book now. The book is structured like a course workbook and not a reference manual. There is another catch though... this book is very specific to Access 2002 and not 2000. I was lost for a few pages when I took notice at the screen shots of the properties menus and seen them in Access 2002. I was fortunate enough to have had Access 2k and 2002 to see the difference so watch for that. I also recommend "Mastering Access 2000 Development" by Alison Balter ISBN:0-672-31484-3 I just picked that one up and that one is fantastic and would go well after you get through this one. Over all I think that this book does do what it intends, to teach VBA basics but maybe it should be renamed to Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute VBA Beginner. An absolute beginner to Access would probably not know Access well enough to understand this level of book. I do recommend it as a good short course for begining VBA basics.
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Summary: Mixed thoughts
Review: I have mixed thoughts for this book since so far it has brought me through to learning VBA for Access. I would recommend this book for someone that is already an intermediate Access user that knows all about the Access objects(tables,forms,queries,reports...etc.) and how to create them without a wizard. In other words a person like me that went so far as building a few apps by just using the wizards and macros but needed to add some detailed logic to the next project. That is where VBA was needed for me and this book is great from that prospective. It has held my hand through VBA basics so far, I am almost done with the book now. The book is structured like a course workbook and not a reference manual. There is another catch though... this book is very specific to Access 2002 and not 2000. I was lost for a few pages when I took notice at the screen shots of the properties menus and seen them in Access 2002. I was fortunate enough to have had Access 2k and 2002 to see the difference so watch for that. I also recommend "Mastering Access 2000 Development" by Alison Balter ISBN:0-672-31484-3 I just picked that one up and that one is fantastic and would go well after you get through this one. Over all I think that this book does do what it intends, to teach VBA basics but maybe it should be renamed to Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute VBA Beginner. An absolute beginner to Access would probably not know Access well enough to understand this level of book. I do recommend it as a good short course for begining VBA basics.
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Summary: I should have read these reviews!
Review: This book is TERRIBLE! Don't buy it! I got lost on page 10. What a waste of money!
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Summary: Beginner my A*#
Review: This is a very difficult book to understand. It says it's for the absolute beginner! I've already had a Visual Basic class and could not understand this book. He gives code examples but never tells you how to implement it. You have to look at the picture and try to figure out that you need to add a text box or a label to the form before you have a place to write the code he shows you. It is very poorly written with no instruction or definitions of code lingo. I wish I could get my money back!
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