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Essential Skills With Delphi 5

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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.

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?

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.