Teach Yourself Visual dBASE 5.5 Programming in 21 Days

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Summary: A great place to start with Visual DBase
Review: As a newcomer to VisualDBase program, this book was very helpful in a project at work involving updating and revising an old DOS-based DBase application for the Win95 environment. My only complaint is that the authors assume you've bought the compiler as well as VisualDBase 5.5. It would have been helpful to mention in the introduction that you'll probably want to pick up the compiler/professional version of the program if you have any intention of creating applications which are of use on a machine which doesn't have an installed copy of VisualDBase 5.5. Otherwise, the examples were clear and built well upon preceding topics.

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Summary: A great place to start with Visual DBase
Review: As a newcomer to VisualDBase program, this book was very helpful in a project at work involving updating and revising an old DOS-based DBase application for the Win95 environment. My only complaint is that the authors assume you've bought the compiler as well as VisualDBase 5.5. It would have been helpful to mention in the introduction that you'll probably want to pick up the compiler/professional version of the program if you have any intention of creating applications which are of use on a machine which doesn't have an installed copy of VisualDBase 5.5. Otherwise, the examples were clear and built well upon preceding topics.

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Summary: Beginner Trap
Review: How any of the other reviewers can say this book is any good is beyond me. I can only assume they are beginners who lack any experience at all using visual dbase. Visual dbase uses OOP. A point completely lost on the author of this book and I assume the other reviewers. It is the one of the worst books I've seen on visual dbase. No I'll revise that: It is the worst book I've seen on visual dbase.

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Summary: Excellent resource for understanding windows dBase programmi
Review: I had programed in dBase for DOS many years back but knew nothing of the windows environment. I looked at many of the books related to Visual dBase 5.5. They delved into creating tables, etc. that I already knew. This book got right down to basics. I loved it. I had spent months digging through other dBase books and found less than I did in this books first week's lessons. Now I'd like an encore

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Summary: Excellent resource for understanding windows dBase programmi
Review: I had programed in dBase for DOS many years back but knew nothing of the windows environment. I looked at many of the books related to Visual dBase 5.5. They delved into creating tables, etc. that I already knew. This book got right down to basics. I loved it. I had spent months digging through other dBase books and found less than I did in this books first week's lessons. Now I'd like an encore

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Summary: Solid source of Information
Review: Shows reader a-z on dbase. Highly recommended

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Summary: Good place for getting started
Review: The book was generally helpful, but the authors seem to forget about reports and creating toolbars and classes. I guess that I expected too much from such a simple book.

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Summary: Excellent Book for Beginners Learn Dbase 5.5
Review: This is an excellent book, that taeches using independend and complete programs with uniques details for beginners.

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Summary: Beginners Only
Review: This book is a big disappointment. It misses everything on the basics of OOP. It won't explain anything about classes, methods or even variables. Big thumbs down ! BTW : if you are interested in multimedia, there are 3 chapters devoted to it. However, I would prefer them in a separate book than sacrifice on the essentials of OOP.

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Summary: Beginners Only
Review: This book is a big disappointment. It misses everything on the basics of OOP. It won't explain anything about classes, methods or even variables. Big thumbs down ! BTW : if you are interested in multimedia, there are 3 chapters devoted to it. However, I would prefer them in a separate book than sacrifice on the essentials of OOP.