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Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual InterDev 6 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself -- Days)
by Robert Crouch, Michael Amundsen
List Price: $34.99
Our Price: $24.49
ISBN: 0672315637
Publisher: SAMS (13 December, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 156,467
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 out of 5
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Rating: 2 out of 5
Great idea...too much errata
I bought this book thinking it would be a nice kick-start to ASP and Visual InterDev. I was wrong.
If you don't have programing know-how the the consistant errata and lack of coding standards will cause you to not get past Day 1.
The coding, which standards change from day to day, leaves out important details, chnages methods in doing the same tasks, and if you type it directly from the book, will cause your programs from Day 2 on to not work correctly.
The amount of errata makes what could have been a good book a sub-standard one, and what is worse is that the Author only lists 2 errata on his website, when I found multiple errata throughout the book...at least 2-3 per 'day'.
Stick with a WROX beginners book and you'll fair much better and save yourself some frustration.
I've been programing for over 10 years, and without my previous knowledge, I would have never figured out the errors in the coding.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Great idea...too much errata
I got this book thinking it would be a great start on ASP programing with Visual Interdev.
Although I have learned alot, it has taken a lot longer due to, as other reviewers have pointed out, poor layout, poor coding (errata all over the place) and no coding standards. Each day seems like it was written by someone else as the coding is a little different each time.
I recently got a WROX book on the same topic, and it's 100 times more organized.This book should have gone through the editing stage a few more times before being published. Someone with little programing know-how will be lost due to the errors, and the Author's site only points out 2 errata...after going through 5 days the only day I didn't have errata was day 1.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Poorly put together
It seems that the authors were asleep during the making of this book. This book suffers from poorly put together content: diagrams, layout, lack of files on the cd, and explanations. The first thing that was annoying was on page 15, on the bottom, that says if you need help on setting up the Frontpage98 Server Extension... refer to appendix B. Guess what folks, there is nothing mentioned there. I had to rummage through the internet and the Microsoft site to find any support. It then gets even better a few pages ahead (19) where it says to locate the database "STYDBVI6" ... sure thing... where is it... on the CD? I think not! Most of the book appears to be like that. From content missing, to lack of explanations, and other types of errata. While some examples and code can be worth while to look at (even the HTML is bad), it can however increase your knowledge of Visual InterDev. The only price is that you will be struggling and wanting to hit something hard from the annoyance this book might bring at times. However, you'll learn. Make sure you check the author's web site at Sams Publishing for any errata on the book.
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