Customer Reviews

Writing SAP ABAP/4 Programs

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This is a well written book and makes easy reading, BUT it does not cover topics such as dialog programs, table controls, transactions, etc. I found this shortcoming to be a major disappointment.

A person who just starts his programming experience and it happenes to be ABAP/4 may find a well-organized way how to code some programming task. However, after initial exposure to ABAP/4 the person should run away from this book in order to get in-depth understanding of coding complex applications. The strong side of the book: consistency in conveying the material to novice programmers; the weak point: there's not a clear statement whom it's addressed for.

If you are looking to write only "Hello World" in ABAP then this is your book. But if your job is to write production code then use the SAP online documentation or Ruediger and Wolfgang's book.

This is one of the best books on ABAP. Although it does not cover all the topics, it really helps you with BDC, Dataset and it shows you some good programming practices. This should not be your first book, cause it is not for beginners. Really worth it. I wish it covered more topics.

"Writing SAP ABAP/4 Programs" is a well written textbook. I disagree with another reader's comment that it is just a "Hello World" book. Hoffman provides excellent program examples and explanations.

It is showing very good ABAP programming technique. It it mostly covering BDC programming and drill-down reporting (which I think is very cool).

If you are writting ABAP code, you need this book. The author provides stright forward examples and insights. This one never gets too far from the keyboard.

This is the only book on the market that gives an indepth description and an excellent overview and procedural details of BDC programming. However, as the author has claimed this is not for beginners. If you want to learn BDC this is the book. Go for it.

This is book is well written and the information is every useful. I like to the way the book was laid out. It is very logical and the examples are very good. The Do's and Don't's are very helpful for ABAP developers...