[AccessD] Tech books ..

Bob Gajewski bob at renaissancesiding.com
Fri Mar 21 09:26:00 CST 2003


Tom

No disagreement about your authoring comments. Just a side suggestion - go to Helen Feddema's phenomenal site:

http://www.helenfeddema.com/

She has very useful and informative cross-application code.

Regards,
Bob Gajewski



On Friday, March 21, 2003 09:25 AM, Tom Adams [SMTP:tomadatn at bellsouth.net] wrote:
> To the whizzes that write books in this list 
> 
> A recent post that said they learned better from examples than from reading books brought up a point I've been meaning to make.  I
> know the publishers push you to include all Access user levels in your books so more will sell.  However that means that 80% of the
> book is useless for moderate to advanced readers 
> 
> There are two points I'd like to point out (neither of which has a chance of making it) 
> 1.  Have a few overly documented examples if you will - but include a bunch of heavy duty
>      code for examples for the advanced programmers - with little or no comments.  The documented
>      examples in books are usually too simple to be very useful.  Real code will teach most
>      developers without the comments 
> 
> 2.  As there are millions of Excel and Access power users through developers - and sometimes they
>      will be doing other apps - eg. Excel to Access, Excel to VB, Access to VB and/or VB to Access,
>      Access to Sql Server and Sql Server to Jet - consider writing a From X to Y Dictionary.  Eg 
>      From Access to VB, From Jet to Sql Server, etc 
> 
>      I've moved into VB for the last 6 months and would have paid almost anything for an Access to Vb
>      book.  Eg. Combo Box.  What a pain in VB.  Can't tell you how long this took me to figure out 
>      Makes me want to find one of the Access guys at Microsoft and give them my first born child (I
>      know, I know - she's a teenager and that's a punishment worse than death to inflict on anyone but
>      the thought is grateful.)
> 
>      I find that I know exactly what I want to do in Access but the differences are often difficult to figure
>      out 
> 
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