Palm OS Programming

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I found this book to be a disappointment. It looked good in the store but after reading most of it I felt like I had wasted my money. The author writes about the easy stuff and glosses over, or omits entirely, the more difficult areas. His coverage of the topics is not in an optimum order, leaving the reader wondering why certain code was included only to find out why in later chapters. Nearly all examples omit field member declarations but include non-used menu handling code. In my opinion, his programming style is at a less than professional level. For example, in many of his test conditions he assumes a Boolean result from a non-Boolean variable value without explicitly forming a Boolean expression. I also found the use of Hungarian notation to make the code samples less readable and harder to follow. He would do well to read and apply the principles from "Writing Solid Code", by Steve Maguire prior to writing any more sample code. Frankly, I learned much more, while spending less time and effort, by reading the "Codewarrior for Palm OS Tutorial" that comes with Codewarrior.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I found this book to be a disappointment. It looked good in the store but after reading most of it I felt like I had wasted my money. The author writes about the easy stuff and glosses over, or omits entirely, the more difficult areas. His coverage of the topics is not in an optimum order, leaving the reader wondering why certain code was included only to find out why in later chapters. Nearly all examples omit field member declarations but include non-used menu handling code. In my opinion, his programming style is at a less than professional level. For example, in many of his test conditions he assumes a Boolean result from a non-Boolean variable value without explicitly forming a Boolean expression. I also found the use of Hungarian notation to make the code samples less readable and harder to follow. He would do well to read and apply the principles from "Writing Solid Code", by Steve Maguire prior to writing any more sample code. Frankly, I learned much more, while spending less time and effort, by reading the "Codewarrior for Palm OS Tutorial" that comes with Codewarrior.