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Applications Development in Microsoft Access 2000 (New Perspectives (Course Technology Paperback))

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I took an Access Programming class at CVTC in Wisconsin and was required to buy this as a textbook. The instructor eventually admitted that this was a poor textbook and was unable to teach from it. They did not use the text for the class the next semester so I am stuck with it. I wasted my money on the class and the textbook. At one point our instructor gave of 3 pages of corrections for the book that she downloaded from the website.

I had to purchase this book for a class at Lansing Community College, and have had nothing but problems. The examples are unclear and overly wordy. The number of typo's and other errors in this book are unforgivable, and it appears to have been rushed to publication.

It would have been a nice addition to see some kind of hints given for the end of chapter exercises, and the number of records you would find in a properly created query, especially since later exercises build off a query from Chap 2.

If you have to use this book for a class, you may want to buy another book as an additional reference.

This book is required for a database class in the Business School at UMD. Unless you're required to buy it, stay away! This book is ridden with typos, poor style, and stupid examples. This book was obviously rushed to market in the hopes that it would be required material for DB classes.

The instructions of the book are unclear, and all exercises of each chapter was build on previous chapters. so if you make mistakes on one step on chapter 5, it can grow into a big problem in chapter 9 or 10. Unless you need it for a college class, stay away. If you need it for a college class unfortunately, you may want buy a second book that teaches intro to MS Access.

We are currently using this book as a text at Gillette campus - NWCCD. It is the only book that uses Access and Visual Basic to do database programming. It is easy to follow and provides the students with the database applications and programming application that we need for future database development and maintenance.