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Title: Beginning Access 2000 VBA (with CD-ROM) by David Sussman, Robert Smith, Dave Sussman ISBN: 1861001762 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent, excellent tutorial. (Did I mention excellent?)
Comment: I have about 12 books on Access development in my bookcase and this is one that I can't stop reading. Why? Because it's done like I think a good beginners book should be. Many books contain a lot of babbling and not enough 'good' examples. This one is different.
Hundreds of useful examples, well explained, waiting to be typed (or used from the CD) can be found. The book explains very well their choice of using DAO over ADO, I thing it's a very good idea. As far as I'm concerned, I thing it's one of the best solid introduction to Access VBA you can find. As an Access teacher, I found some very good concepts and approaches in their projects.
You're very familiar with Access interface? Was exposed to VBA a little? Willing to bring your apps to new heights? Want to see some examples? Then this book IS for you. The pace is reasonable, the writing is great, there are easy to more complex concepts explained. As the title implies, this is a beginning VBA book, not a developer's handbook. But don't be misled by the word 'Beginning', there is serious stuff in there like Class objects, networking issues and approaches to solving good problems.
You're tired of books saying, you could do this or do that without explaining how? This book is not like that. Finally, a book that left out that Northwind omnipresent database and came up with something different!
Rating: 3
Summary: It's Good But Not For Absolute Beginners
Comment: This is a solid book, nicely written, and the authors have obviously put a lot of thought and good effort into it. However, in it's introduction, the authors advise that you don't really need to know anything about programming in order to understand the book. In my experience that's not correct. While a beginner can understand parts of the book, you soon get the feeling that you are in over your head. It gets into fairly complex code quite quickly. It would be a great book if you are taking a class or have a teacher to explain the parts that need clarification. But for a beginner like myself trying to learn VBA on my own, it's too much too soon. Another thing that this book (or any book) could do to help you learn is provide a lot of problems at the end of each chapter for you to try and apply what you learned, sort of the way we learned algebra in high school.
Evan Callahan's Book, Step By Step Microsoft Access VBA is a much more basic beginner's book. It takes you by the hand and gets you writing code quickly. It does not take you very far into VBA, but does get you going.
The next book I'd recommend is VBA Handbook by Susan Novalis. It's a much more gentle intro than is Sussman's book. In fact, after you learn Novalis' book you will probably be ready for Sussman's book.
Rating: 4
Summary: not a bad book to learn VBA
Comment: This is a great book that covers many important aspects of VBA and access programming. The title "Beginning" of this book, however, is a bit misleading, because the pace is probably too fast for people who are new to coding. The exercises at the end of each chapter usually require the readers to use new things not covered in the book, so most of the time, I would have to look at the answers first, and then try to understand how the problems are solved. Therefore I feel that the authors are trying to jam in as much information as they possibly can on the topics within limited space. Fortunately the explanations for the codes are well done, and the author stick to their promise that this is a book about the VBA, not 'How-to-use-access'. The authors stick with DAO all through the book and leave out ADO entirely. I agree with them on that decision, so that one can really get a good feel for DAO and not lose focus trying to learn 2 technologies at once. If you can go through this book and understand the concepts and details, I would recommend, as the next step, a developer's reference, such as Access 2000 Developers' Handbook from Sybex.
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Title: Access 2000 VBA Handbook by Susann Novalis ISBN: 0782123244 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Professional Access 2000 Programming by Ian Blackburn, Robin Dewson, Scott Hanselman, Hope Hatfield, Trey Johnson, David Liske, Felipe Martins, Brian Matsik, Dennis Salguero, Kevin Shelby ISBN: 1861004087 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Access 2000 Developer's Handbook 2 Volume Set by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782123716 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $99.99 |
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Title: Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development by Alison Balter ISBN: 0672314843 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 26 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: F. Scott Barker's Microsoft Access 2000 Power Programming by F. Scott Barker ISBN: 0672315068 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 11 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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