ABAP Programming: A Guide to the Certification Course (Plastic Comb)

~ Kathleen Sikora (Author)

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Product Description

Everything you need to know to be a certified ABAP programmer. This book came to life as I attended the four week long SAP ABAP Development Workbench class. It was born out of need. The amount of material covered each day of the course was staggering. I wanted to capture everything in a way that I could easily understand, so that I could study for the certification exam, and refresh my memory when I was on the job as an ABAP programmer. The book did not fail me. I passed the exam and it has saved me more than once on the job. There are other excellent books out there. Most cover ABAP language fundamentals, which is the material of the first week of the class. This book covers the whole four weeks of material. If you are considering attending the ABAP class, here are the notes you won't have time to take. If you have taken the course, here is the refresher you need. If you'd like to teach yourself ABAP, this book takes you step-by-step in the same order that the material was presented in class. 176 pages, illustrated, and comb-bound so it stays open on your desk.

About the Author

Kathleen Sikora is a programmer who lives on the coast of Maine. She started out punching Fortran into cards and feeding them to an IBM 360. She wrote one of the Navy's first networked microcomputer applications. She works on mainframe and desktop platforms. She is a certified SAP ABAP Consultant. She lives with her husband, Joe Stanton, and her son, Ian Sikora, an avid Macintosh user.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 173 pages
• Publisher: Youguys Pub (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970655401
• ISBN-13: 978-0970655400
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,745,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Expensive for what you get and not current, December 4, 2002

By	Billy T. Carnley "BillyT" (Youngsville, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A lot of notes especially if done during the certification course. However, I recently went through the certification course and found the book of little use. Book is not current (e.g., matchcodes instead of search help)with later releases of ABAP and just keeping up with the course material is a full time job. Book has an index but chapters follow, I'm guessing, the certification course the author took. The book is what the editorial saids, notes but expensive notes for what you get. It's a spiral binder not a book. With that said, I'm hoping it will be of more use as a reference during actual coding. Author does a good job in areas but not [the amount] worth. If I could, I'd send it back.

2.0 out of 5 stars A ABAP Summary, November 5, 2002

By	John Olarte (Bogota Colombia) - See all my reviews

It is a good summary about ABAP, but in this book you can't find information upon the certification exam. I was expecting some example questions, and there's no one.