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Title: Access 2000 Programming Weekend Crash Course by Cary N. Prague, Jennifer Reardon, Lawrence S. Kasevich, Phuc V. Phan, Diana Reid ISBN: 0-7645-4688-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.47 (15 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The best fit for me
Comment: I found this book fit my need quite well. I am a senior level Oracle DBA, have some VB experience (not much), good at Oracle developer 2000 (form and report), meaning I have solid database knowledge, skills, and programming skills. What I want is to quickly become good at Access application development for some small Access projects, and this book gives me just what I need.

Rating: 1
Summary: No good
Comment: Learn Access in 15 hours? No way. The authors sound more like consultants trying to sell you a product than instructing you on the basic building blocks. I use Access 2000 for plenty of database development and wanted to delve deeper into the programming aspect. This book falls well short of the what the title presents.

Rating: 2
Summary: Not what it claims
Comment: I was hoping this book would be what I was looking for. I already know Access basics but I don't really know much VBA programming. I was looking for a beginning VBA book, and I hoped this was it. I was wrong.

First of all, there is no way to do this book in 15 hours, so I resent the false advertising. But I could forgive that if the book took me step-by-step in some way that is understandable. It does no such thing.

I'll admit, the first 4 chapters were fine. They introduce VBA programming to the reader very nicely. But after that the programming examples jump to a height that was way beyond my understanding, becasue they don't explain simpler VBA programming concepts first. They just jump into relatively complex code examples and assume you can figure it out. No explaination. No "ok, now let's examine this code and see what's going on..."

And when the book gets to the chapter on DAO and ADO they really lost me, and yet the authors go on their merry way, somehow believing that the reader is having no trouble following them. Same with the chapter on bound forms vs unbound forms. I could understand the discussion, but they don't prepare you at all for the complex code that they display.

On the plus side, there is some good discussion. Not about code but about chosing between taking one approach over another. However, in the end that discussion is useless because you still can't figure out how to code in VBA.

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