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Title: Using Optima++ 1.5, Special Edition by Raghuram Bala, Kate Gregory ISBN: 0-7897-0894-9 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly edited, faulty example code, Not worth your time
Comment: As one of the few books available that deals with Powersoft's Optima++ RAD developer, one would hope that this work would be concise and informative - guess again! Poorly edited text, badly organized chapters, and buggy code are what you'll get. The only thing that prevents me from giving this book a lower rating is that indeed there are smidgens of useful information to be found if you're willing to wade through the the muck. Don't open the included CD-ROM until you've had a chance to go through 4 or 5 chapters - that way you can return it once you realize what a dog it is

Rating: 4
Summary: Bala's book is not for beginners or people with little time.
Comment: There are two major faults associated with this book. The first one is that the author seems to assume that the reader has a working knowledge of Powersoft's Powerbuilder. The second is the monumental, astronomical, number of errors in the text. If you have the time to solve the puzzles that arise because of these, and also enjoy doing the detective work, then you won't mind the mistakes. I hope that the editor got a negative bonus for his (her) work. Another quirk of the publication is that the accompanying CD has the cpp files but it doesn't have the hpp files - a big stumbling block when you're trying to solve some of the mysteries. On the other hand, the book is full of extremely useful information, both from the Optima++ side, as well as from the C++ side. I wish Que will reprint the book with no errors and a more complete CD.