Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) [Paperback]

Paul Kimmel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672316617 | ISBN-13: 978-0672316616 | Publication Date: December 13, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Sams Teach Yourself Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours considerably improves the quality of the database applications that you can create with Microsoft Access. Upon completed this book, you will be able to understand any sample VBA code that you see, and possess the skills to attack all of the most common Access programming tasks. Topics covered include using data aware controls, creating data aware Web pages, creating views to organize data, building reusable code modules, programming reports, communicating results with graphing, automating contact and task management with Outlook, and Access programming for Internet Explorer.

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Sams Teach Yourself Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours considerably improves the quality of the database applications that you can create with Microsoft Access. Upon completed this book, you will be able to understand any sample VBA code that you see, and possess the skills to attack all of the most common Access programming tasks. Topics covered include using data aware controls, creating data aware Web pages, creating views to organize data, building reusable code modules, programming reports, communicating results with graphing, automating contact and task management with Outlook, and Access programming for Internet Explorer.

About the Author

Paul Kimmel is the founder of Software Conceptions. Software Conceptions provides software development and consulting services to small, medium, and large companies world wide. Paul Kimmel has been developing business solutions in Microsoft Access for multi-national direct marketing companies, NASD Broker Dealers in California and Wisconsin, Insurance Companies, and as an object persistency layer for accounting and telecommunications software.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (December 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672316617
• ISBN-13: 978-0672316616
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,868,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for starters, January 30, 2000

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Eric (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

I was new to Access programming and was faced with some tasks at work, so I picked up this book and well, after a just a little time I was up and running. I highly recommend this title for anyone who is interested in programming Access 2000. A must have for beginners!

57 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction, plus programming advice too, March 15, 2000

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Peter Brooks (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

I have to be honest and declare a special interest here: I know and have worked with Paul Kimmel. Readers of this review may judge my objectivity in that light - in-depth personal knowledge or old boys network. I profess (and prefer) the former ;)

By trade I am not only a Technical Writer but also a VBA programmer with many years hands-on experience in both fields. I'm also a published author. I like to think that I know a good thing when I see one, and this book is definitely in that category.

Readers of this book will not only gain knowledge of VBA in ACCESS but also insights into better programming principles and practices. It is therefore a useful resource on two counts.

The style is informal, almost conversational (yes, I do remember the name of my second grade teacher - read the book!) and the sentences are short to medium length, rather than complex and convoluted (like mine!), paralleling the author's recommendation of breaking both problems and coded solutions down into smaller, more manageable chunks.

Each hourly section comes with a quiz, which is always a useful way to self-test (if you cheat, you really do only cheat yourself - but you'll still learn something), and answers are provided in an appendix.

In my professional opinion this is a must-have, not only for those wishing to teach themselves VBA/ACCESS but also for CS students looking for perspectives on what constitute better approaches to programming. If you're also new to the concept of Objects and Object-oriented programming (OOP) then this is as good a primer as I have seen.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Some useful information, but poorly presented and edited., March 7, 2003

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Kinetic Fish "Kinetic Fish" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 Programming in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

This book is intended for very novice programmers, and, at least in the first seven chapters I have managed to slog through, covers Visual Basic and only passingly covers how to program for Access. The presentation is poor, both due to the awkward and affected style (e.g. "Conditional code is the traffic cop of computer programs. Individual lines of code solve singular problems.") and completely indecipherable statements such as "A collection is a user-defined datatype. The users who defined the collection are the programmers who wrote Access." Parts of the book are very basic, such as the sections describing the parts of the computer -- the RAM, hard disk, bus, etc, and also has problems, such as "The electircal wire along which information travels is referred to as a bus. The microprocessor's address and data bus store the information of where data resides in memory." Confusing and inaccurate.

There are more blatant errors, such as the code example where the circumference of the circle is defined as pi*radius^2; this is actually the area. Also, a digression on an "aha" moment using Archimedes is wrong on the law of bouyancy, on Archimedes being "the father of geometry" and on Grady Booch originating the "aha" concept.

I don't recommend the book either for a begining programmer -- there are many other books that are better written and more accurate or for someone, like myself, looking for a text to teach how to program specifically using Access VBA. However, if any of you are insistent are getting the book, I'll be happy to sell you my copy.