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Summary: The Access VBA book that is hard to swallow
Review: This book is good, but it contains too much information. The book is overkill on Access VBA. More information than anyone can handle. The code examples can be too long. You can learn, but you have to stay awake and remain alert. If not you will fall asleep. I don't recommend it to beginners at all. For all beginners out there, stay clear of this book. If you don't you might end up hating Access VBA. I thought the book could have been written a lot shorter. I recommend this book to experienced users who want to read a few pages a day.
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Summary: Definitely NOT for beginners!
Review: This book is good, but it's definitely NOT for beginners. I was very disappointed and frustrated. No way would a beginner be able to grasp 10% of what they present. Oh well. The advanced programmers out there will love it.
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Summary: Excellent BOOK!
Review: This book is great! Beginners and Advance users alike will benefit from this book. Great for work reference.
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Summary: A 'MUST' for vba programmers
Review: This book teach you not only how to use VBA for database programming but also the concept of OOP and VBA. I highly recommend this book for those who are interest in Access programming. One thing I would like to voice out is Wrox does not publish any books for VBA in advance level or Office97 development so far. WHY??
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Summary: Reyadh ALQatari From ARABIA
Review: This books is really an excellent books for novice and beginners as it is intended for.I advise anybody starting to learn basics of VBA programming using access 97. The authers did a greatjob.
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Summary: One of a kind book on VB programming using Access. Buy it.
Review: This is a great book on programming Access from below the covers... using VBA. Although the book says its "Beginning" don't rely on that. This is a great intermediate book, with lots of stuff for the beginners thrown in. Thus, the intermediate programmer must wade through the usual "this is a program" stuff, but it's a trip well worth the time, because the authors provide many unknown secrets to VBA programming with Access. As a VB programmer, using Access VBA can be extremely frustrating because of the things you can't do. The authors solve many of those little things that can hang you up in Access. For example, this book has taught me to link single forms... rather than using sub-forms. It has also taught me to throw away many other commonly accepted "Access'isms". I wished they had covered how to build menus. No one seems to cover the whole kludgy story. Why does Access/VBA make this such a difficult task... compared to VB5? The book is laid out well, with lots of code examples. I hope they come out with an "Intermediate" or "Advanced" version. The author, David Sussman, also teaches a class at ZDU online which uses this book. This is another great book from Wrox press, a publisher that does a great job at covering programming topics indepth. The authors are Scotch, yet thankfully manage to spell "color" without the "u". They also deliver their lessons with a sense of humor.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is a great book. I got it for a class in VBA and I am keeping it as a reference for the future. It's very well written, the examples are clear and useful for developing more complicated "real-life" projects.
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Summary: Great book - but Access experience required
Review: This is a really great book if you want to pick up VBA really fast. If you have had any amount of programming experience in the past, the book will be a fairly quick read since you will mostly only need the syntax. The book itself is very well written and the examples are some of the best that I have seen in many programming books. The functions that they provide can easily (with some modification, of course) be turned into code that you can actually use in some of your databases, not just some random examples like most other books use. My only criticism is that this book touts itself as suitable for new Access users. I would definitely not recommend this. I think that someone would have to have a minimum of three months of day-to-day operations with Access in order to benefit from this book. However, if you do have this, then this book will take your development skills to a completely new level.
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Summary: Great book - absolutey terrible for beginners
Review: This is assuredly the best VBA book out there; chock full of code examples and the whole lot, which seems to be the primary problem. Make no mistake about it, this is NOT for beginners. Come on Rob and Dave, half a page of complicated hard coding in only chapter 3? Wrox makes the mistake as listing this book as first in their suggested VB career track on the back. For all you rookies out there, do not start with this book! Start with Peter Wright's exemplary book first, Beginning VB6, then go on to this one. But for all you salty eggheads, this one is fantastic.
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Summary: Allowed me to "step-up" in Access 97 development
Review: This is not a true beginners book. The word "Intermediate" should appear somewhere on the cover. I am divided on this book, some chapters are fantastic, while others are terribly written. On the negative: the authors make constant reference to how easy this is, however they are forgetting that the readers of this book do not have the multi-year experience that they possess. Certain chapters are extemely complicated are clearly intended for seasoned professionals. They also spend considerable time on procedures that would likely never be used in the real world. On the positive: there is a great deal of information here, the chapter on recordsets in sensational. The authors and I agree that recordset (note this is a broad subject) manipulation is one of the most crucial issues in Access VBA development. After employing what I learned into my real world applications, it is clear why this subject is so critical. They did a great job of writing the chapters that cover recordsets (and all of its' subsets) as well as program logic (If/Then, Do/Loop, For Each/Next, Arrays, etc.). If you are truly a beginner to VBA then buy "Step by Step" first. I would warn that the reader should not be taken in by the word "Beginner" in the title. Do not buy this book unless you are serious about application development. If you can understand this book, then you are moving into an elite status. I would not recommend this book unless your goal is to be compensated (to at least some degree) for your Access programming skills.
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