Customer Reviews

Developing Saps R/3 Applications with ABAP/4 with CD-ROM

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After three years of ABAP consulting I don't know why I haven't burned this book. I got it in an official SAP training class, and it was written by two of the company's software engineers, but it is one of the worst examples of software writing I have ever seen. Many of the keywords of the language are not even in the index, and most of the subject matter is covered only in broad strokes, meaning that the book does not tell you how to do much of what is really available in the language, not even point out that anything else might exist. It was only by reading existing code and trying to use this book to find out what it meant that I came to realize how inadequate it is.

If you are new to programming (and not just with ABAP/4), you might find this book useful. However, if you are any more advanced, you are not going to learn anything here! The few more advanced topics that are covered here, are also only mentioned and not covered in depth.

This is a good introduction to ABAP/4 programming, if you have experience programming in another language. For me, the main advantage of this book is that it covers dialog programming (creating interactive screens for users). Other ABAP/4 intro books that I've seend cover only SAP reporting. The chapters on dialog programming are very good. However, if you are just beginning with ABAP/4, I recommend SAMs Teach Yourself ABAP/4 in 21 Days by Ken Greenwood -- it has a more step-by-step approach, and goes into more detail on tables. Better yet, get both books.

4 times I needed to check or find something, 4 times it didn't help me. And if you want to learn abap....take a course. This is a bible without the New and the Old testament, but just an incomplete table of contents.

If you are just starting out with ABAP/4 Programming, you need this book. Sure this book won't cover hundreds of details on one topic, but it gives you a strong foundation for learning basic to intermediate level before moving onto an advanced level book.

The book is basically an introduction one only for people with a little bit experiences. It covers elementary information about ABAP/4, GUIs, screens, and functions. The authors try to address the issues about ABAP/4 and SAP as good as possible. But they fail to do that. Many of its information in the book may subject to making confusion to new SAP programmers. Some descriptions are repetitive about theory and programming importance but does not focus on details and give major examples. Overall, the book is so good as it declares it is an immediate and advanced book for experience professionals. For people who are already familiar with ABAP/4 and SAP, it is actually useless.

General idea of the basic ABAP features are fair and satisfactory. Not much detail on the movement within the R/3 Workbench interface may leave the reader confused as to where he/she is at. References to GUI objects such as buttons, icons and menu bars and etc. doesn't match with those on the illustrations occassionally when reading along. Amazingly, this book is actually much better than most books in the market with the new demand for SAP and lack of good SAP/ABAP authors.

I bought this book years ago. I used it a lot when I first learn ABAP and it's extremely useful.

When those where I work struggled with learning specific techniques, various on site books on SAP and ABAP were checked. This book, owned by our SAP contractor, was loaned to us. We agree with the contractor, who said it is by far the best book on SAP's R/3 Applications with ABAP. Book is out of print, but we prefer it (regardless of the older version) over all the others we have. We're buying two more copies because our SAP contractor wants his back. (This book is FAR TOO VALUABLE not to be updated with new version info and put back into print)

Some literature in the CD accompanying this book comes only in German language, without accompanying English version. Good introduction by this readable book itself to ABAP/4, though.