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Beginning Access 2003 VBA (Programmer to Programmer)

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I spent some time looking at various titles that covered VBA for Access. Ms.Gosnell's offering Access 2003 VBA was not the first book I purchased on the subject, but was the one that I have worked through and found to be very useful. (I took the other one back) It is arranged in a logical way and doesn't dwell on database theory and planning, although it offers some useful tools to aid in that process. It gets down to the subject quickly and leads the reader through a development sequence that includes examples that are practical and that I could put to work the next day. The text is clear and the programing examples are easy to follow and implement. They are also downloadable. She does assume that you are reasonably Access literate but doesn't get bogged down in jargon. It is a great place to start for a VBA novice.

I must highly recommend this book by Denise Gosnell. After skimming through about 20 books on the subject at a super bookstore in Melbourne, I decided this book was the best by far. I must admit, I am beginning to become slightly discouraged at the amount of books out there - especially on PHP and MySQL that I decided to bite the bullet and learn Access and Visual Basic programming.

This book gives you great examples and you CAN go to any chapter depending on your current skill level without being thrown on a tangent of fancy techniques and confusing explanations. All I want in a book, is someone to TEACH me through step by step explanations and well thought out sample exersizes. Denise has a wonderful ability to write and keep up your enthusiasm to keep perservering. I highly commend everyone give this book a go and you will see what I am talking about.

Thank you Denise, I look forward to reading some more of you work in the near future.

I have been programming in VB for about 12 years and I found this 'Beginning' book VERY useful. Most books give you syntax on how to write certain 'things' but fail to give you good programming practice examples. This may not be pointed out to a novice user, but if you are familiar with any type coding and 'read' between the lines, one will notice great coding examples. Shows you examples of what to place in modules to separate business logic from the user forms from database logic, and etc. Great examples Denise. Please keep up the good work. Most books will have you type the same info in every VB module or form showing functionality without showing good separation of logic and good programming practice. I fully enjoyed this book and hope to hear more from Denise in future books....

I've never coded in VBA. I've always relied on the macros in MS Access to do everything I needed to do. However, I picked this book up to try and learn a few new things. By the time I got through chapter 6, I was writing VBA code like it was nothing.

Incredible text written so the novice user can understand it with excellent hands-on examples and exercies both provide a tremendous self educational experience for the most basic of VBA programmers (such as myself).

I was writing VB code professionally from '93 to '98 and wrote code for Access as well, but even an old hand can use a few pointers. Denise Gosnell does a fine job of re-introducing the best of VBA in a single, fairly short book.

I consider myself an advanced Access user but I want to be able to use VBA to make my db's sing and dance. I've invested many dollars on VBA books (paper and electronic) to try and get my head around the process of programming VBA but they have all too quickly go deep into details that I don't consider the meat and potatoes of VBA but the garnish. Of all the books I've purchased, this is the first and only one that I've been able to actually follow past the 2nd chapter. Denise Gosnell wrote this for the person who is not a programmer but wants to learn how. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn how to use VBA in their Access db's.

I am relatively new to programming, but am very familiar with Access. I picked up this book hoping to improve my ability to customize my Access databases, but I've decided to return it to Amazon. The reader is asked to repeatedly try out examples, which is typically followed by a brief, superficial explanation of the code. Often, some of the more complex calculation are simply not explained!

If you are new to programming, do NOT buy this book. If you have any experience with Visual Basic programming, this book MIGHT give you some insight into how to navigate the Access programming environment, but even then it probably will fall short.

I took program courses years ago in college and was a very good programmer. However I never ventured into visual language because I found them confusing. This book will get you started. It gives you all the basics. If you have done old basic you need to get past the terminology but the example explain themselves. It give you skill but like any art you need to put it on the canvas. Great book!

it's a great start FOR SOMEONE WHO KNOWS A LITTLE VBA. I highly do not recommend if for beginners. If you know nothing about vba, variables, sub routines, functions etcetera, I would suggest you start with a Steve Roman book on VBA for Word. The book is a great concept book for beginner understanding of n-tear programming in vba. As far as doing tricks in vba, there are very few examples in this book. The wrok advanced vba should have been the beginner book (to some degree.)

I have started reading this book full of enthusiasm and ready to absorb all the information. To my disappointment I have found out that the writer keeps repeating the same things again and again without actually giving any usefull information. The examples are asking you to repeat the same typing again and again to find out that at the end they don't work. A total waste of time and money.