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Title: Palm Programming for the Absolute Beginner w/CD by Andrew Harris, Andy Harris ISBN: 0-7615-3524-1 Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good for beginners, with caveats
Comment: PocketC is an excellent programming platform for Palm devices. I have used it to create simple programs, and it turns out, with little more care, can be used to create professional quality programs. This book does not show you how to create professional quality programs with PocketC. However, it is a good book to start if you want to learn programming in your own time.
Personally, I find the program samples rather useless, and not at all fun. Perhaps better examples should have been used. Watch out for amateurish code! Plenty of them peppers the examples. Most annoying is rectangles intersection code. The author admits it is faulty, and instead of fixing it, provides excuses for it. Why didn't he ask his smart programmer friend on how to fix it? It's not a hard problem. Some of the slowness of the code may stem from the way CControls works, so you may do better providing your own code. A reading of Algorithm by Robert Sedgewick can prove useful.
Good points: Easy reading, accessible for beginners. Good PocketC packages. STAIR principle.
Bad points: Amateurish code. Lots of space padding pictures. Not all examples are useful program.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Excellent Start
Comment: I liked this book because it gave me an invaluable knowledge base to start programming in for my Palm. It neatly covers most of what I need from palm programming without getting bogged down in complicated programming concepts such as object-oriented programming and interaction with the Palm OS. However, I hope Andy Harris has written books on those as well, because thanks to this one, I'm ready to go there too. I do wish the book had more information on how to represent my applications in the application window. I also would like to have the POSE software the book says is on the CD. The index and table of contents promise both, yet the book/CD combo provides neither.
Rating: 4
Summary: A great way to get productive with PocketC
Comment: I had never done any C programming before buying this book. I had done some basic in high school and arexx after but had never progressed beyond hello world in C. Granted PocketC is not "real" C, but when I comes to getting an idea from your head to your palm it fits the bill almost perfectly. You are introduced to all the basics of working with pocketC in this book. Unfortunately it does not really cover the PDE version. If you read all the documentation that comes with the program and the parts of PToolBoxLib that you will need though, the total becomes more than a sum of its parts. In less than a month I had the basic understanding of how to go from an idea to a working project and would not have made it without this book. If you couple it with a standard text on C you will be able to work through most of your problems. It is to be noted though, that pocketC apps are kind of slow. But I think the upside more than offsets the downside.
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Title: Palm OS Programming Bible, Second Edition by Lonnon R. Foster ISBN: 0764549618 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition by Neil Rhodes, Julie McKeehan ISBN: 1565928563 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Palm Programming in 24 Hours by Gavin Maxwell ISBN: 0672316110 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 16 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Instant Palm OS Applications by Kris A. Jamsa, Kris, Ph.D. Jamsa ISBN: 0072193301 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 31 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS (O'Reilly Palm) by Matthew Holmes, Patrick Burton, Roger Knoell ISBN: 0596002009 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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