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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 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Dreamweaver 3 Bible - Macromedia Press	Degree of Information Value for money
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 Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Java in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference by Flanagan, David	Quality of Text Interesting/Absorbing? Level of Difficulty
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 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Visual Basic in easy steps	Quality of Text Interesting/Absorbing? Level of Difficulty
Captain Kirk would have approved Advantages: Very good introduction / reference Disadvantages: Lacks examples ...series of three books covering Java 2 1.2 and 1.3 in a very short number of pages. The book starts with chapters explaining the concepts in brief (with very few examples) and then the majority of the book is a reference guide to the libraries. In case you're wondering, the definition of enterprise when referring to Java, is the technology needed to make the kind of applications used by large enterprises, ie. distributed ones Contents are: JDBC (the ... ...be the same. As with Java in a Nutshell though, those kind people at O’Reilly have put every example from every Java book on the website, so you can get the examples from the O'Reilly Java 2D book as well as the Java Examples in a Nutshell and work out what’s going on and how it’s done. See http://java.oreilly.com/ for details. See also: Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell Java Enterprise in a Nutshell Both by David Flanagan. ... andy-T 22.02.2001 · Read Full Review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell	Quality of Text Interesting/Absorbing? Level of Difficulty
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 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Randal L Schwartz & Tom Christiansen - Learning Perl	Quality of Text Interesting/Absorbing? Level of Difficulty