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Summary: The Best Delphi 3.0 Book I've Read
Review: I purchased this book with a view to learning more about OLE and COM which is covered very comprehensively. But I found that once I started reading the other chapters I could not put the book down. Some people have commented that this book is a poor teaching aid. This is not what this book sets out to do. QUE's guide puts this book at Accomplished to Expert level. If you are an experienced, professional programmer who needs an excellent reference book, buy this. You will not regret it.
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Summary: Great book for intermediate Delphi programmers!
Review: If you have programmed in another language before, but not Delphi, this is the book for you. After a quick overview of general programming concepts, Pascal data types, etc., it goes into a thorough description of the Delphi 3 language and features. I did wish that it had more info on database programming--5 chapters wasn't enough for me!
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Summary: Great book for intermediate Delphi programmers!
Review: This is one of my favorite Delphi 3 books, as it covers material not easily found elsewhere. This is not a beginner's book by any means. The coverage of DLLs, COM, and threading is outstanding. This is a book for those who want to delve more deeply into the relationships between VCLs and the WinAPI.
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Summary: Excellent Advanced-Expert book
Review: This is one of my favorite Delphi 3 books, as it covers material not easily found elsewhere. This is not a beginner's book by any means. The coverage of DLLs, COM, and threading is outstanding. This is a book for those who want to delve more deeply into the relationships between VCLs and the WinAPI.
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Summary: The Best Delphi 3.0 Book I've Read
Review: USING DELPHI 3 is not a very good book to get you started learning DELPHI. It seems to just list features and functions without explaining (in a simplified format) how and why. The examples are also incomplete and a little criptic. Maybe others got some help from this book, but I found very little that I could use. Of the 12 books I have on DELPHI the best is MASTERING DELPHI 3 by Marco Cantu, followed by DELPHI UNLEASHED by Charles Calvert.
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Summary: This is my favorite general purpose Delphi 3 book.
Review: Using Delphi 3, Special Edition is a decent book on Delphi, but doesn't cover most of the new features or benifits of Delplhi 3. Virtually nothing was said on the new component packages technology, most of the new components & tools, and virtually nothing on the new features of the code editor and enviornment.
That said this is an average book on Delphi programming, and has a few good examples and sample programs. A lot of the information can be gotten from the Delphi manuals and on-line help, and most of the topics are not very advanced.
This book doesn't stand out as "got to have" or reference text and is very misleading claiming to be a book on Delphi 3. Although one of the first to the market for Delphi 3, I'd recommend skipping this one and waiting.
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