Alison Balter's Teach Yourself Microsoft Office Access 2003 in 24 Hours

[Top Spin]

Has anyone used this book?

Would it be a good choice for someone with a good technical background
and a general understanding of database concepts who is looking to
learn Access?


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(11/03/04)

 

[Steve Schapel]

Top,

I have not seen this book. However, my impression is that Alison Balter
tends to focus on using ADO, which is not the first choice of many
Access developers.

 

[Van T. Dinh]

It may suit certain learning style but I prefer to go for more comprehensive
/ havier books. Alison Balter has 2 much more comprehensive books (1 on
general Access development and one on enterprise development). I suppose
the 24 hours would be a simplified version of the first book.

I still remember one of those " .. in 21 days". There were 21 chapters, one
for each day. It is obviously not enough so the book has 7 "bonus" chapters
not counted in the 21 days. At least the author implicitly acknowledged
that 21 days wasn't enough to learn the software package.

24 hours ...???