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23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Book May 06, 2000
By Stuart Gold
This book proves that online buying with associated reader reviews is not necessarily effective! I was put off buying this book through Amazon by the reviews. When I saw it in a book shop I immediately realized that it is the best book on VFP 6.0 that I have seen. It is consistently easy to read and informative.I have been programming in Foxpro and VFP for many years and feel that this book has the breadth of coverage to enable me to fill in many of the holes in my knowledge. I think that some of the other reviewers who gave a bad rating were new to VFP. They should realize that VFP is not a beginners database product and a book of this breadth of coverage cannot hope to satisfy a beginner to VFP.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Using Visual Foxpro 6 Dec 07, 1999
By Brian Pinsley
There's only one word to describe this book. BAD! A beginner will never learn much because the examples, at least in the beginning of the book, don't relate to anything. If you don't know foxpro code, you just copy routines that are meaningless as there is no explanation of the code. I could rant and rave for a long time, however, all I'm saying is this is a very poor book that does not even have a listing of the foxpro commands so you can check up what the code is. Don't waste your time or your money.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Dissapointing read Nov 24, 1999
I found the book particularly hard to follow, with a lot of disjointed areas. For example, early in the book, the author talks about the main window, with a command window inside that, further down the same page it refers to the command window as the main window and goes on to describe the objects within that window. However as the author has swopped 'main' and 'command', utter confusion results. I would advise people who need a Foxpro primer not to get this book. There appears to be no succinct overview of the Foxpro package to enable you to hang any threads from. It reads rather like a mystery book, where all is only made clear at the last chapter, unfortunately I never got there due to the number of mistakes and confusion generated before that. This quite expensive book was a total waste of my time and money.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
No Good is an uderstatement! Oct 24, 1999
If you are a beginner to VFP6, do not buy this book.. It is a useless book as a reference as well. To be totally honest, this is the worst book I've ever read!
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Very good VFP6 book if you invest time in it Sep 29, 2001
By Alan Fichtenholtz
I've read several Visusal FoxPro books, and to me, this was one of the better ones. It's not really designed as a reference book, but rather as a guide to helping the reader learn to use the various functionaliy available in VFP. This is a big topic, and the author addresses a wide range of issues. I would recommend this book to users who already have some (but not necessarily a lot) of VFP experience, and want to advance from a beginner to the next level. The book is over a thousand pages, so if you're looking for a "Learn VFP in 5-minutes", this is not the book for you.
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