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Summary: It isn't clear, it isn't very helpful, A WASTE OF MONEY
Review: Briefly, I was wanting to use VFP and have found difficulties getting a book to help me get me around the "new" database style...I bought Using Visual Fox Pro (QUE) and found it fairly hard to get around So I then bought VFP dummies, VFP programming basics (OSBORNE) and THERE IS NO COMPARISON the latter book is clear and holds ones hand and takes the reader through the basic concepts in a clear logical fashion,,,, highly recommended On the other hand DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON VFP for dummies. THIS BOOK doesn't deliver anything of merit.. I Guess I am the dummy for buying it !!!!
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Summary: It isn't clear, it isn't very helpful, A WASTE OF MONEY
Review: Briefly, I was wanting to use VFP and have found difficulties getting a book to help me get me around the "new" database style... I bought Using Visual Fox Pro (QUE) and found it fairly hard to get around So I then bought VFP dummies, VFP programming basics (OSBORNE) and THERE IS NO COMPARISON the latter book is clear and holds ones hand and takes the reader through the basic concepts in a clear logical fashion,,,, highly recommended On the other hand DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON VFP for dummies. THIS BOOK doesn't deliver anything of merit.. I Guess I am the dummy for buying it !!!!
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Summary: on the job
Review: I knew nothing about Fox when i bought this book, it has been an invaluable resource! if you need this for work, don't delay, buy it now!
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Summary: The worst dummies book yet
Review: I've purchased "Dummies" books before to get a quick synopsis of a topic. But this one by far, is a terrible buy. I knew nothing about FoxPro before and regardless of what I learned from the book, the author did a terrible job. Most learning books have you build a project or something, but there was nothing like that here. You would think the author was going somewhere with a project, and then he'd just start a new paragraph with something else. Plus, many figured did NOT match the text. The author was also guilty of many "but, we'll cover that later" or "but we covered that in chapter X". This was a poor, poor buy. IDG books are usually good, this wasn't.
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Summary: The worst dummies book yet
Review: I've purchased "Dummies" books before to get a quick synopsis of a topic. But this one by far, is a terrible buy. I knew nothing about FoxPro before and regardless of what I learned from the book, the author did a terrible job. Most learning books have you build a project or something, but there was nothing like that here. You would think the author was going somewhere with a project, and then he'd just start a new paragraph with something else. Plus, many figured did NOT match the text. The author was also guilty of many "but, we'll cover that later" or "but we covered that in chapter X". This was a poor, poor buy. IDG books are usually good, this wasn't.
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Summary: The worst dummies book yet
Review: Just to keep it short and simple, if you are even slightly familiar with Foxpro this is not the book for you. Whereas if you are just beginning to learn an xbase langauge, this book will give you a great overview of most topics.
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Summary: Okay place to start if you are just getting into foxpro
Review: Just to keep it short and simple, if you are even slightly familiar with Foxpro this is not the book for you. Whereas if you are just beginning to learn an xbase langauge, this book will give you a great overview of most topics.
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Summary: Helped me get my feet wet.
Review: This book helped introduce me to VFP 6.0 even though it was written for VFP 5.0. Very elementary and good for the beginner.
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Summary: Helped me get my feet wet.
Review: This book helped introduce me to VFP 6.0 even though it was written for VFP 5.0. Very elementary and good for the beginner.
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Summary: I was very glad that I didn't pay for this book.
Review: This is one book that I was very glad that my employer purchased for me. This is partly because I would feel robbed if I had paid for this book out of my own pocket. That is because in this book of 348 pages, (for someone who already knows FoxPro 2.6), only 32 pages had anything noteworthy on them. And on most of those 32 pages, the noteworthy content was as little as a sentence fragment. For someone who is new to FoxPro this could be a useful first book. It is discouraging though that I could have remove those 32 pages and said the same thing from the perspective of FoxPro 2.6
The author does cover all the basics and the fundemental changes: nomenclature, triggers, new field types, new index types, NULL field values, join conditions (inner, left, right, and full), the new wizards, combo boxes, grids, classes and ActiveX.
This coverage is done is such a way as to be absolutely maddening to those of us who already know FoxPro 2.x. The coverage of Classes is a good example. The author, in chapter 17, covers "Classes and ActiveX". In this 8 page chapter, 6 pages cover classes! Classes are one of the few things this book covered that is truly NEW to FoxPro and most programmers. So what do they do? They give it a very cursory six pages, predominately of fluff ! The potential in Visual Foxpro is fantastic now that it is capable of Object-Orient Programing. I consider it a shame that this section was treated so lightly!
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