AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Graphical Api by John Ayres, David Bowden, Larry Diehl, Phil Dorcas, Kenneth Harrison, Rod Mathes, Ovais Reza, Mike Tobin, Phillip Dorcas, Mike Tobin ISBN: 1-55622-610-1 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 2.47 (17 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Pretty bloody thin, if you ask me
Comment: Is this a tome? I was expecting deep subject coverage. What we have instead is a reproduction of the API docs. Does that a tome make? I think not. What's missing? Complex examples. Real-world examples (who creates windows with API calls when we have TForm?). Undocumented insights behind the APIs -- things you can't find in MSDN or the Platform SDK. More than anything, this book highlights the bloody lack of good Delphi books. This one is definitely a pass.

Rating: 2
Summary: Looks alot like MSDN to me
Comment: Couldn't help but notice the obvious similarities between this book and the examples in MSDN and the Platform SDK. If you have either of these, I don't know why you'd need this book. I bought it thinking I'd get expert advice and insights. All it really is is a rehash of what's publicly available from MS anyway.

Rating: 1
Summary: Like the other tomes books, pretentious and uninformative
Comment: I don't know many Delphi developers who can't at least read VB code. Obviously, the authors of this book can, because the examples are eerily similar to the VB Win32 examples in MSDN. So much so that I rather doubt a competent Delphi developer who has MSDN would really get much value from this book. If you can read VB, you don't need this book. I was expecting unique insights into the way that Delphi implements the API, particularly the graphics API, but instead got a lame VB-to-Pascal translation. Can't recommend this book.

Similar Books:

Title: The Tomes of Delphi : Basic 32-Bit by John C. Penman, Alan C. Moore ISBN: 1556227523 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95