Programming

Dreamweaver 3 Bible

Advantages: Extremely through and easy to read
Disadvantages: A lot to take in, but if you use it more as a reference book rather than one to read and learn you should be ok

...what you get) aspect of Dreamweaver is hard, when I've been writing in HTML for years. However, I decided to buy the Dreamweaver 3 Bible, as although I was producing moderatly decent webpages with Dreamweaver, I had the strangest feeling that I was missing out on something..... It turns out I was! However I was fazed, and still am by the size of the book (over 2 inches thick!), I found the easiest way was just to skim the book, then when there was ...
...included with a trial of Dreamweaver (in case you haven't already got it), Flash4 and Fireworks3, as well as over 300 dreamweaver extensions, to help you make even more fantastic websites. It also shows you how you can incoporate Flash and Fireworks into your website, but thats a little over my head just yet! All in all a definite good investment if you want to get the best use out of Dreamweaver, after all if you've spent £200 on the software, you ...

loooeze 17.08.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Dreamweaver 3 Bible - Macromedia Press

VB 6.0 Programming made easier

Advantages: Simplifies the VB programming approach
Disadvantages: For the more advanced programmer, lacks detail

...time I came across the Visual Basic programming language was when I was studying for my Higher National Diploma. This book was recommended to us and was frequently used by the tutor. The book by Tim Anderson is designed with the novice in mind. The book covers all of the basics the newcomer will require to get up and running with the Visual Basic language and covers Visual Basic 6. The book starts by introducing the reader to Visual Basic. It provides ...
...Learning Edition, Professional, Enterprise and Visual Basic for Applications in Office. The reader is taken through the application creation process, step by step, helping the reader to understand the practical side more. Whilst going through these stages, information is provided to explain various features that are used as part of the development environment, such as toolbars, the properties window and the project explorer. Once this initial background ...

m_weller 12.12.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Visual Basic in easy steps

The Complete Desktop Companion

Advantages: The best desktop Java companion avalble
Disadvantages: Due to the size of Java, the book has been slit over several publications

The book is THE required Java reference. Originally pointed toward the series by a college lecturer, it immediately became an irreplaceable handbook, allowing me to become competent in Java in less than a day. Owners of previous versions of the book could do worse than pick up this update. For these new to Java, the updated introduction to Java chapters is concise and informative, providing one of the best tutorials available. Although, due to the ...

ArmatigeShanks 10.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Java in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference by Flanagan, David

SAMS Teach yourslef Java in 21 days - Too good to be true!

Advantages: Good examples, Clear Layout
Disadvantages: No coverage of program design

I teach Java to sixth formers and every year I get al least one who goes against what I say and end up buying this book. On the surface I guess it looks attractive, 24 hours to learn a new programming language? Sounds great. Having read through the book it doesn't do a bad job of teaching the very basics, data types, functions, procedures, assignement, iteration, selection all covered. There is example code for people to try and the book extends ...
...is that it skims over so much. At no point are people taught about sound programming concepts or the thought processes behind how you go about designing and creating a program. Thge book also splits things down into "hours" to give you an idea of how far along you are. I decided to give it a try and read through the whole thing completing all the suggested exercises. It took me over 30 hours and I have been programming for years so hopefully avoided ...

thejazzyj 17.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sams Teach yourself JAVA 2 in 21 days by Laura Lemay

Learning indeed!

Advantages: Well written with good explanations and exercises
Disadvantages: A tad complicated, then it is computer programming

I got this book from amazon.co.uk for help with an A-Level computing project. It's a bit difficult to get into, but luckily I had a friend to help me who had already lent me Perl & CGI for the WWW - A Visual Quickstart Guide. Thanks to these facts, I'm managing to struggle through the boo, although I must add that I'm a complete novice programmer with my previous experience being mostly limited to HTML. Basically it explains things a lot more clearly ...
...a bigger help, so I actually know why things are happening, rather than just how to make them happen. This book is a must for anyone wanting to learn the language, although it doesn't do a lot on Web Programming using CGI - only the last chapter caters for that. ...

Beano 15.10.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Randal L Schwartz & Tom Christiansen - Learning Perl