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Learn Graphics File Programming With Delphi 3

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This is BY FAR the worst computer related book I have ever touched. I seriously doubt that the Author even knew what he was doing when he decided to write this book. I purchased this book a while ago, and after trying to create working examples from his bug ridden code I became so distraught that I used this utterly worthless book for firewood. I have never seen anything like this before. Even books written by college professors for use with only thier classes have less errors and those books often have several pages missing and thousands of typos. So, if you are even considering buying this book, then do everyone a favor and DO NOT buy this failer of a book. Hopefully the author will lose money by writting books and as a result be forced to give up writing, which will be beneficial for everyone.

I bought this book only because I need to try to support the Kodak FlashPix format, and this book happened to have some code related to that format. Unfortunately for me, the code doesn't work. It constantly returns errors and cannot even open the FlashPix pictures that came with the book on the CD. This is the second (and last) worthless computer book I've bought from Wordware. I contacted then to see if maybe there had been an update to fix the bad code on the CD, and they told me they don't support the code contained in their books and that I would have to contact the author.

One star is the lowest rating Amazon has, so that's what I entered... but it deserves no stars and a whole mess of lemons because that's what this book is.

Wordware apparently never applied any editorial skills to what was obviously a poor first draft of what could have been a good book. The text is often disconnected to illustrative code, the code on the CDROM misses some chapters and is not in the correct directories. It is a roll of the dice trying to find the code you are interested in. A large number of the formats covered are of no interest, and for the money it is a puny book. Nobody should buy this book.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from this book! This has got to be one of the worst programming books I have ever seen.

The code included on the CD doesn't match that in the book, and neither set of code work. The included examples crash, have missing files, and various other problems. The author includes his e-mail address but ignores all questions, so support is non-existant. There is not one redeeming quality of this book.

I picked up this book in the Bargain book bin for $4.99 and paid five times its value. The book is poorly written, filled with errors and the CD ROM would make a good coaster. I gave this book 1 star but a 1/2 star is more appropriate.

This book uses incredibly outdated and antiquated technology. He still uses far pointers, an artifact of 16-bit Windows 3.1 that disappeared 12 years ago with Windows 95, which itself is antiquated! Nobody programs like this anymore in 2008 (or even in 1998!).

I find the chapter "What's not in this book", where he rants about redundant discussions that typify other programming books, to be mildly amusing and I read it from time to time just to get a laugh. Other than that the book is a shelf decoration.