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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >