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Title: Delphi 5 Developer's Guide (Developer's Guide) by Steve Teixeira, Xavier Pacheco ISBN: 0-672-31781-8 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 27 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No Delphi Guru Wants To Be Without This Bible
Comment: Ok, first things First. Click The Buy Button and come back and read this review. You simply cannot go wrong with this book. Previously I had brought Mastering Delphi 3 & 5 and thought they were good (which they are), but sorry Marco, the best delphi book mantle has been past on.
Ok, D5 Developer's Guide. What this book doesn't cover isn't worth knowing. A brief contents listing... * History Of Delphi (Interesting Read) * Object Pascal Language Overview (For the newbies) * Win32 API overview (and yes, you do need to deal with the API from time to time) * Coding Standards (I mean, this book even tells you how you should write the code! ) * Using ActiveX Controls * Graphics Programming * DLLs * Printing * Multithreading * Help with Porting your apps to Delphi 5 (And we are only half way through the book) * Writing your own components (400 pages to this alone) * Database Development (Desktop, Client Server, Midas and Corba) (4 Chapters)
Over 1500 pages of information. What with this book, the two Tomes Of Delphi, Win32Api references and Mastering Delphi 5, there should be enough information there to make a Guru out of a first year college student. Seriously, I cannot rate this book high enough. Don't worry about it not being worth the money - it is. Every Penny.
The only problem with this book is that some of the chapters are on the CDROM (however, they are the ones that you might want to read once in a while) and that you might pull your back picking the book up. (Just remember the correct lifting stance).
Rating: 3
Summary: Good but
Comment: The book is well written, however some chapters are avaliable on CD only with no print permission. I do not like reading books on my computer screen. If you don't like ebooks like me find another book
Rating: 2
Summary: Good Information, but the usage of the CD drove me crazy
Comment: This book had a lot of useful information, but the formatting and the usage of the companion CD drove me crazy. Here is and example: I'm reading along and I finish chapter 5 only to find chapter 6, 7, and 8 are on the companion CD. For now I skip them, and go on to chapter 9. When I'm finished with that I find that chapter 10 is on the companion CD and it has all of the coverage on printing (one of the subjects I need), so I open the CD and start reading chapter 10. This is something like 54 pages, and it has some good subject matter. I decide to print a couple of the pages only to find that they have their security setting set so you can't print ANY of the book chapters (or highlight, so you can't copy and paste items). In all, the companion CD contains 447 pages of non-printable text from random parts of the book. If any subject interests you all you can do is write a note as to the page number and location on the CD, nothing else is allowed. I found it very hard to read an electronic page or two and then try an example and keep on flipping back and forth electronically. If this doesn't bother you then this may just be the book for you. I felt the information was good, but a book that can't be put on paper isn't for me.
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Title: Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantu ISBN: 0782125654 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Tomes of Delphi: WIn32 Shell API Windows 2000 Edition by John Ayres ISBN: 1556227493 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Mastering Delphi 7 by Marco Cantu, Marco Cantù ISBN: 078214201X Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 20 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Delphi Developer's Handbook by Marco Cantu ISBN: 0782119875 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Delphi in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Ray Lischner ISBN: 1565926595 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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