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Summary: good but incomplete
Review: The book assumes that you already downloaded the "Developing Palm OS 3.0 Application" reference book, so you can check what the function xyz does.First, the conception of event loop is introduced and the authors describe how the main Frm functions interact. Then, authors proceed by addressing various problems which can arise when you use the system functions. The book is extremely useful, but in addition to it, you should also read the three volumes of the reference guide. The book misses: description of the main types, full description of RCP files, description of Makefiles for gcc, description of all the functions used in the book.
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Summary: Palm OS Programming The Developer's Guide
Review: The information was not as detailed in some areas as I had hoped. It would be a handy reference guide except! The pages are separating from the binder and I expect that in a few months I will have many lose pages stuffed in the book, Especially in areas I reference often. A good reference book should withstand repeated usage, and this one will not.This book was bought new in mid November and has had just one months useage.
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Summary: Good but Needs Improvement
Review: This book covers some of what a developer needs to know in order to develop a good Palm application. Sections are well-written and straightforward, for the most part. However, some of the serious deficiencies of this text are that a lot of the essentials are arbitrarily left out and the organization of the book, as a whole, is not good. The Authors never review specific information about variables, code fragments are scattered about without much explanation about how to use them, and basic controls, such as buttons, are not covered at all in the programming exercises. These shortcomings aside, this is probably the best book going for palm programming right now. There is a lot of good information in here about database programming and conduit development that I found to be valuable, and that should be useful for the beginning Palm developer.
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Summary: feet of sand
Review: this book gave me a passion to write another text,one that had good grounding, this book had feet of sand, the further i got into it the more tenuous my grasp on where i was became. there is no flow, no direction, just one large block of dried ink between an O'R cover. please avoid this book if your C is anyway weak. the flow of code, the looping, is paramount in palm development. embedded applications have this design at their very core. i printed out all the palm dev. pdf files and all the pdf's from CodeWarrior, this was my text for all my work. i'd look up functions and try to make them work. there is a distinct lack of good texts for this platform which amazes me. V/R, d.
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Summary: Concise collection of information
Review: This book provides a good concise collection of the basic information needed to develop a complete application including a custom conduit. You could download most of the same information from Palm but you would be left digging through vast amounts of dry documents to extract what you need. O'Reilly press has done what it does best and extracted the most useful information for you and put it together in an interesting format. It won't answer every question you have but it is a good place to start.
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Summary: a waste of money
Review: This book seems to be mostly an extract of the online documentation from palm, inc. But the downloadable documentation is much more complete, and it's in pdf-format, so it prints nicely on a laser printer. I wouldn't waste my money on this book (well, unfortunately I have, but that's another story).
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Summary: Poor effort
Review: This book was a waste of money. The author makes statements such as "These controls are simple to use and are well documented". With that, he summarily dismisses them, and apparently expects the reader to figure them out on their own without examples. Why do you think I bought the book in the first place? To put it bluntly, this book has left me with an empty feeling (and an empty wallet).
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Summary: Very good book to make your 1st programs
Review: This book will teach you all the basics of PalmOS programming whether you use CodeWarrior or GCC + PilRC + GDB.
You'll find a lot of small reusable programming examples that will help you to build your next application faster. For instance, you'll learn how to port a TCP/IP Unix application using Berkeley Sockets to PalmOS in 5 minutes !
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Summary: Decent, but can't stand alone.
Review: This is a decent overview of programming for the Palm OS platform. However, it's not a reference - for that you'll want to download the docs from Palm's devzone web site. And before reading this book, you might want to go through some of the "Hello World" tutorials found various places on the web. Given those things, I found the book a good source of examples and a few helpful tips (the gcc callback function issue would have caught me, for example). In general, this book could have been a lot better.
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Summary: Very useful, but cannot stand alone.
Review: This is a good introduction in the fine tradition of the O'Rielly series, however, it is missing some crucial information. As an accomplied C programmer, I picked up the book in hopes of having the one source, other than the Palm Reference materials, than I would need to get up to speed. Alas, that was not the case. The authors skipped alot of crucial stuff on GUI development, an area where vendor information is always thin. This lead to a lot of trial and error. Examples: fields where covered, but a few critical items were left out. Also it would have benefited from more examples apart from their one sample app that they built through the book. On the other side of the coin, the concept of building a full app throughout the book to give depth to the text is a great idea that I hope others emulation. However, no one app will use all of the concepts that need to be covered, so some unconnected examples are also needed. Also interesting was the compare/contrast of the two main development environments for Palm: CodeWarrior and GNU. Being an old UNIX guy, I like the GNU compiler, but it does lack some from the CodeWarrior product, which I ended up buying eventually. The Lite version on the CD is nearly unuseable.
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