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Title: Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide by David G. McAmis ISBN: 0-07-219326-3 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: It's ok
Comment: It is a beginners book as the title says, but there is a pittfal, the author should consider for future books.
Not every chapter has a step-by-step tutrial. The user have to download the samples and use them to be able to follow the author, which defeats the purpose of learning by doing.
Chapters 4 & 5 make are mutually exlusive, since chp 5 requires reports from chp 4, that was not a step-by-step tutorial.
Either make it a step-by-step or don't. Just be consistent.
Rating: 1
Summary: This book [is bad]
Comment: This book needs some serious editing
Right now I'm on Chapter 4 and so far this book is terrible in regards to the Projects. The project instructions don't correspond with the results intended and shown. For example, the instructions say open the Customer by Country report, but then it says 'your report should look like this' and shows you an entirely different report! And sometimes the report you worked on doesn't even work for the task you're trying to learn. The author must have had his friends write the other customer reviews. Don't buy this book! It's just unfortunate though that there aren't many choices.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Coverage and Design
Comment: Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide covers everything and more that I wanted to learn about Crystal Reports. The information is easy to digest and there are regular 1-Minute checks along the way. Hands-on experience, in the form of Projects, are dispersed through each chapter (the completed projects can be downloaded from the web). Answers to the Mastery Checks, at the end of every chapter, are given in the Appendix.
My only complaint about the book is that, I feel, there is not enough hands-on experience because the projects are too simple. There are plenty of projects, but most of them are simply a number of steps and very little critical thinking. After reading Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide, my knowledge of Crystal Reports has vastly increased though I still have little experience with actually creating reports.
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Title: Crystal Reports 8.5: The Complete Reference by George Peck, Michael Mueller, Lyssa Wald ISBN: 0072193271 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 26 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports 8 for Dummies by Douglas J. Wolf ISBN: 0764506420 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 26 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours by Joe Estes, Kathryn Hunt, Neil FitzGerald, Ryan Marples, Steve Lucas ISBN: 0672320908 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports 9 for Dummies by Allen G. Taylor ISBN: 0764516418 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports(R) 9: The Complete Reference by George K Peck ISBN: 007222519X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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