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teach yourself LotusScript® for Notes/Domino 4.6

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This is a very good reference book for LotusScript. It can also help people familiar with Visual Basic to get up to speed on LotusScript. So if you're in either of those two categories, this book will probably help. If you're not sure what LotusScript is, skip this book until later.

I did manage to teach my self LotusScript using this book, but it wasn't easy. It's very well structured, almost like a reference book. Its weakest point however is the lack of a good index, the one it contains is far from complete. Thus making it a bad reference. I would like to see a either that the authors make a more didactic revision of it, or make it into to a reference book with a better index. As it is now, it's not good enough for either or. I can't say that I've seen any better LotusScript selfstudy books though, so I would still have to recommend it.

I read this book from front to back. It was a great tutorial that got me started writing LotusScript quickly. I've also found it serves as a great reference manual. Reading this book has paid off for me many times over.

This book will not teach you how to develop using LotusScript. It can be used to remind you of certain topics if you are already a developer, but LN Help can do the same thing and it is free. There are numerous errors and the index is the worst that I have ever seen in a technical book. The examples are repetitive and useless after the 5th chapter. One of the most annoying things with this book is that for every example it contains, it tells you that in order to run the example, you must have installed the DB that comes with the disk. ONE BIG note at the beginning of the book would have accomplished the same thing with a lot less paper and ink. I guess the book needed to be filled with fluff to make it look bigger and therefore more desirable to consumers.

Do not buy this book. It does not teach you anything. It is like a reference manual that is not different than yellow books. If you are not familiar with class etc. buy the book called Practical Lotus Scripot by Patton. It will give you good start. That is all you need to start coding lotusScript and if you need more deatiled info on any subject you can always use the excellent online help of LotusNotes.

Teach Yourself LotusScript is OK as an additional reference for your library. It may give you some additional tips that you may not get from the Lotus Help Files.

As far as an instructive guide for learning script is concerned it is a little light on.

If your after a true instructive guide to learning script - there are probably better books out there.....

The first 100 pages start out decently if somewhat incoherent in its approach. Unfortunately it then gets into a pattern of:

Here's a method or property, Here's a trivial and useless syntax example. See Lotus documentation for details.

Repeat for 600 pages.

I can only assume that the editors didn't understand the content enough to be able to tell how badly this book is put together.

I am the LotusScript specialist at my work, along with doing general Notes support, Notes Administration, SMTP MTA Administartion, and some applications development in Notes. I did fine just refering to the On-line help to start, but now I find I am doing too many things, and a reference I can look at anywhere is more valuable than expected. I look up stuff I need, and browse it for stuff I may need in the future. I may go weeks without doing any script, then need to do nothing but script for a couple days. I keep it handy, even carrying it home and back to work.

Don't waste your money. To learn LotusScript, believe me, you just need Lotus Notes's Help. It is great. It provides you with all LotusScript explanation you need as well as good examples. When I bought this book, I've started reading it and doing it's exercises. I couldn't progress. Then, I've decided to give a try on Note's Help. From there on everything started to work beautifully. Now, thanks to Notes Help, and thanks only to it, I've definitely learned LotusScript.

Having to learn lotusscript myself with little experience in programming and OOP, this book very clearly presents notes classes and its properties/methods in a systematic way. It gave me the boost I needed to get confident with LS ! The "order of events" database included on the disk is particularly useful for beginning LS programmers. Only minus, I would have liked more complicated examples included.