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Summary: The SAP ABAP online documentation is at least as good
Review: Better than most of the published books on ABAP, but still not "experience" oriented. This is a plain ABAP/4 book that gives no more than what you can get from the SAP ABAP/4 online documentation. If you expect a connection to any of the SAP module, you will be disappointed.
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Summary: The SAP ABAP online documentation is at least as good
Review: Better than most of the published books on ABAP, but still not "experience" oriented. This is a plain ABAP/4 book that gives no more than what you can get from the SAP ABAP/4 online documentation. If you expect a connection to any of the SAP module, you will be disappointed.
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Summary: This book is a poor learning tool.
Review: I purchased this book to prepare for our company's move to SAP R/3 and to learn more about the ABAP/4 language. The book was originally written in German and translates poorly into English. Some of the programming examples do not show the resulting output. One example contained German wording (for vendor and product). If someone had exposure to R/2 or other earlier versions of SAP, this book might be useful, but for persons with no exposure to SAP, this book is a poor learning tool even though the author is quite knowledgable about ABAP/4 and SAP R/3.
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Summary: This is for experienced ABAPers only
Review: I was new to ABAP and went haywire reading this book.This book is someone who already knows ABAP/4 for atleast 6 months or so.Even people with programming background trying to learn ABAP won't get anything from the this book.Infact one gets overwhelmed.THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST ABAP BOOK !!!!
The pros of the book are 1.it covers dialog programming 2.Sapscripts which most introductory books don't cover.
I would recommend getting SAMS ABAP/4 IN 21 DAYS for someone who wants to learn ABAP basics
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Summary: Very faulty
Review: I'm an SAP trainer - this book has a lot of mistakes, better buy "ABAP objects" from SAP Press/Galileo
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Summary: Good book for experienced programmer
Review: If you are a programmer and you look for an abap book this should be your choice. It is the book which goes into the most details between the ones I've seen. Even if you have no experience at all with abap I would choose this book but, again, you must already be a programmer.
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Summary: A Very Good, to the point, technically oriented, book !
Review: One of the best books on ABAP/4 . This is not one of those simplistic books that have large typefaces and garish pictures. Has all the technical details that will interest an experienced IT professional.
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Summary: Still trying to figure this out
Review: The book would be good for someone who has started the programming of ABAP/4. However if you are a new comer to this you will find it difficult and having to flip to this chart on page ?? then to this chart on page ?? makes it even more difficult. If you want to learn the basics this is not the book to buy. After I learn somemore in the programming stage of my training I might make a new review.But if your a beginner to SAP as I am stay away from this for now!!
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Summary: Excellent, in-depth... a real tip
Review: This book doesn't try to make ABAP simpler than it is in reality. It treats the language in detail, and doesn't try to hide its many quirks. And despite the detail level, everything is put nicely into context.If you want to become a very good technical ABAP programmer, this book is the only choice. But you probably need some programming experience before you can read it. Way to go Mr. Matzke!
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Summary: This isn't an useful reference.
Review: This book informed me of ABAP/4 in detail. But you can't use this book either as a reference or an introduction. Probably this book is only for those who have some experience of ABAP/4 programing.
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