Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic [Paperback]

Roberto Benitez (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (September 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0557007585
• ISBN-13: 978-0557007585
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXACTLY what I needed..., March 21, 2009

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Yurgen Wolfgang "Raptor" (ZA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic (Paperback)

You probably know how difficult it is to find a good book on OpenOffice.org Base and Basic.

I scoured the Internet for tutorials, wikis, helps, ANYTHING to get me going! (the OpenOffice doc sites are still a dark underworld to me) To make matters worse, I'm so addicted to IDE's that gently hold my hand with their inline API suggestions that OpenOffice.org's IDE stoic silence was about as easy to love as a tree! To make matters even worse, I've spent the last 8 or so years buried in Java; I could hardly remember how to speak Basic from those good 'ol years of GWBasic, QBasic, VB3.0, and VB6.0 (long, long ago!).

Suffice it to say, this book is EXACTLY what I needed.

It's not an API reference book for sure. But it takes you by the hand and leads you through the valleys and over the mountains of database development with OpenOffice.org Base and the Basic programming language. If you want to step above the simple database wizards and become more of a wizard yourself, this book is what you need. In my estimation (and I'm not a rich fellow, I have to count my dollars), this book is worth the price.

Thanks, Roberto and Cecilia for a great book! You must make a great team too! :)

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not helpful, September 11, 2009

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Beemer (Hudson Valley, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic (Paperback)

I've been away from development for a few years, but have worked with Java, JavaScript, ASP, JSP, Lotus Notes/Domino, and SQL before. I was hoping for a book that would bridge the gap between being able to create forms and relational databases in Base (which I could do) and learning how all of the form elements could be accessed and manipulated. The book very briefly touches on how to access the value of a listbox's selection, but doesn't spend any time on how the various different form elements differ in properties and methods, nor does it include a reference to the full properties and methods of the handful of objects used in its examples. This is doubly exasperating because you can't find such a reference anywhere else, either.

My search for a helpful guide continues.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OpenOffice Base Programming, April 12, 2010

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Kevin P. Rosteing MD (Green Bay, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic (Paperback)

Most of the book is logical. Occasionally, he skips important steps. For example, on page 136 he has a step-by-step discussion on how to link a master and slave field. In one sentence he glosses over about seven steps, which took me a couple hours to figure out--only after re-reading the chapter about two times, did I figure out how to accomplish this.

The author assumes the reader knows more than he/she should. If you are technically savvy, you will benefit from this book. Otherwise, you may need to use other sources as well.