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Nathan Wallace's Delphi 3 Example Book (Programmer's Example Series)

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A total waste of money. Includes a CD which only has hyperlinks to a non-existent web site, the contents of the CD is contrary to what is described on the back cover. Email's sent to the publishers regarding the CD were ignored.

Do not include this book in your library. The Delphi Online Help is of better value.

Well...I agree with all the comments submitted by the other customers. The website cannot be found and there's no Source Code in the CD. Those who have purchased this book have been cheated by the publisher and the author. I think all of us deserve our refunds.Don't buy this book or u will regret. I've no choice to put 1 star..in fact no star at all for this book.Tried contacting the e-mail add in the CD but no such mail.Spread this news around to avoid others being cheated.

I was very dissatisfied with the content of the book. The examples given were very rudimentary and offered less than the Delphi help file.

Well all I can say, every now and then you get a bad apple in the bunch. If your a beginner to Delphi start with something *Lite*. Best book i've found so far is called "Beginning Delphi 2.0: Instant Windows Programming, by Wrox publishing. But iterate once again- SAVE YOUR MONEY, DON'T PURCHASE "Nathan Wallace's Delphi 3 Example Book...." !!!

I purchased this book from Amazon in good faith assuming that it would contain data which is sorely missing from the Delphi supplied material. To my surprise, the data I need was not put in print. Instead, chapters 14 thru 20 are placed on the accompanying CD. OK I guess, but not convenient as a good reference tool. When I looked on the CD to find the data I needed, I discovered the CD does not work. I then went to the support web site, only to find that it hasn't been updated since the first week of February, and has absolutely no usable data except an admission that the CD does not work. I feel cheated, even to the point of fraud. I intend to pursue a refund from the publisher. Amazon doesn't need to tarnish their name with this kind of missrepresented work either.

I bought this book on spec. More fool me. The CD contains *nothing* in the way of source code, apart from many projects comprising of one form, and one button - which links to a duff web-site.

Do yourself a favour and skip this book.

it is a shame that books with such a misleading title can be published !! This is definetely the worst IT-book I ever read ! I sent my complaints to the publisher, I only received a few cheap excuses, I think every buyer of this book should be refunded

Do not buy the book for the CD .. its not there and probably will not be there .. Under Construction! Worldware Publishing is no help .. You get the book and the CD as is .. the code does not run.

The title suggests examples but none are included. The web site is garbage. What is in the book is a rehash of the VCL reference. Would be good if I had a pirated copy of Delphi and wanted the VCL reference in hardcopy.

I E-mailed the address provided on the Web site but received no reply. I called the phone number provided on the web site (a non 800 number)and left a message in voice mail. No reply.

I feel I have been scammed.END

I (we) have been waiting for the publisher to release this book! What's the hold-up? Is this possibly the book that will answer all those little programming questions? Is this the one worth waiting for? Who knows! Well, maybe there is a better book available now! I think I'll continue to shop ....