Essential Skills With Delphi 5 [Paperback]

Andrew Santos (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Book Express Editora Ltda (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8586846341
• ISBN-13: 978-8586846342
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,631,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Never should have made it to the printer, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Essential Skills With Delphi 5 (Paperback)

This is a waste of ink. The language and editing are attrocious -- and I mean attrocious! This is nothing more than a collection of screen prints which do nothing to illustrate concepts. There is nothing here to help either a novice or an experienced programmer. The amazing grammar will have you putting the book down before you get through a few pages. Close your eyes and pick any other Delphi book.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed with Translation and Content, April 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Essential Skills With Delphi 5 (Paperback)

This book suffers from being poorly translationed and for lack of usable content. It was obviously not well edited--notice under Trademarks that the paragraph end with an incomplete sentence "as affecting the validity of" . More seriously, things soon get worse in content, for the first chapter covers installation which should be a no-brainer with the installation screens which it reproduces. Chapter two, covers the Delphi 5 environment, but is even less useful than Delphi's online help. Delphi provides a tutorial that better explains the development environment. Chapter 11, "Working with Database" is slightly more focused, but come on guys, who is this book going to help?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Essential Skills With Delphi 5, October 31, 2000

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David B. Naas - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Skills With Delphi 5 (Paperback)

Don't waste your money on this book, there is no real content and look like it was written by a novice trying to pose as an expert. The book should be name `getting started' but that would be an insult to Borland's Getting started manual that ships with Delphi. The biggest use of this book is to help start a fire in my fireplace.