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This is not a bad substitute for the MS-Access documentation. It isn't very much more. Tutorial material on data base concepts is very limited. Field- independent types will love it, since the style is along the "push-this-click- that" model. The "Visual Guide" series is presumably so-called because of the graphical (MS- Windows) software chosen and the preponderance of screenshots. While there are a lot of illustrations, they could stand some work. Very few shots really explain what is going on, and the text refers to items onscreen by names which are not always intuitively obvious. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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This guide will get you started with Visual Basic for Applications, the Visual Basic version integrated with a number of Microsoft products. It will, in fact, show you a number of things you might not have explored on your own. The programming concepts examined here are wider ranging, even if the explanatory material is a bit non-standard. Mansfield's content is not directed only to programmers. The average user, however, would be well advised to have VBA up and running while reading the book. Visual Basic's -- well, visual -- orientation makes doing easier than reading and translating. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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Designed for the VRML beginner, VRML: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet leads the reader through a series of well-organized, helpful chapters and exercises. The guide's logical sequence of topics and the authors' approachable writing style afford a solid understanding of the ins and outs of virtual worlds. The authors begin with a series of background chapters, which progress from basic concepts of computer graphics and virtual reality (VR) to the fundamentals of virtual worlds and the Web. The authors then introduce the reader to VR browsing software and exploration of worlds. Users establish a level of comfort with the subject and can easily jump into subsequent chapters that teach the VRML language and the creation of objects and ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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With article titles like "The Web Is Ruined and I Ruined It" (a rumination on "HTML terrorism"), Dan Connolly has assembled an amusing and well-paced commentary on XML. XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques is not strictly a tutorial. However, as Connolly outlines in the introduction, this book attempts to cover "the complete technical specification, primers, implementation case studies, applications, and even historical and philosophical reflections on the emerging role of XML." XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques is an insider's trove of articles such as Michael Leventhal's, "XML: Can the Desperate Perl Hacker Do It?" This thorough collection also contains articles covering a wide variety of topics relevant to XML implementation: Perl... Rest of this review on the detail page
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The author of an introductory text has a problem of balance: those who are just learning a language do not know enough about it to point out features of importance, while those who are well familiar with the system may have trouble recalling how it was that they learned, and what they needed to know in order as they progressed. Heller has tried to address this issue by bringing a real, honest-to-goodness novice into the process. In theory, this is somewhat akin to taping a live course, and including the questions and comments of the participants. In practice, though, a class has a number of novices with a range of background and experience. One newcomer is far less likely to bring up all the questions that are likely to arise. Heller'... Rest of this review on the detail page
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