Instant PowerBuilder Objects [Paperback]

Nadia Basant (Author), Basant Nanda (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 277 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; Pap/Dsk edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861000065
• ISBN-13: 978-1861000064
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,317,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Utter waste of money and time - stay away, December 3, 1999

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a Powerbuilder programmer (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant PowerBuilder Objects (Paperback)

I bought this book based on the reviews at amazon. The time I spent on this book could have been better utilized elsewhere. The author tries to talk about powerbuilder/OOP/design patterns/ActiveX/OCX/VB and so on without any grasp of the concepts underlying any of these technologies and methodologies. The result is a hopeless morass of confused ramblings with no direction. I wonder how some of the other reviewers gave this sorry excuse of a book 5 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WROX - Shame on you, December 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant PowerBuilder Objects (Paperback)

How WROX decided to push this terrible piece of writing on their readers is beyond my comprehension. I am a senior Sybase/PowerBuilder programmer, and I felt like laughing at the inaccuracies and inconsistencies that I constantly encountered in this stinker. When I read the reviews at Amazon that this is a great OOP/Design Patterns book, I was intrigued enough to snap up a copy. I am a great fan of using Patterns in my code. But the authors of this book give a completely uneducated and uninformed writing on this complex subject. Coders who are experienced in Patterns/OOP will laugh at this garbage. Novice programmers will be misled completely. I will never buy another WROX title again. My guess is that the reviewers who gave this turkey 5 stars must be friends of the author.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a good book - poorly written, November 24, 1999

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gordon liu (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant PowerBuilder Objects (Paperback)

This book pretends to teach advanced OO and design patterns and falls woefully short. The authors don't have any grasp over the fundamentals of OO. Don't waste your money on it. This book isn't worth the paper it is printed on. There are better books on powerbuilder. If you want OO or design patterns pick up the books by Booch or Gamma et al.