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Learning REALbasic through Applications
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Author: Clayton Crooks II, Clayton E. Crooks
List Price: $41.95
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ISBN: 1584502061
Publisher: Charles River Media (12 August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 259,340
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Should be called: REALbad throughout
Out of curiousity, I read through enough of this book in Borders to see that it's in right in line with the [lack of] quality I expect from Charles River Media. Anyone who's mistakenly purchased any book from this publisher already knows what a waste of trees their books are, and now so do you. I give this 1 star because the pull-down menu doesn't have an option for no star at all.If you're already a crack programmer in some language (any at all), get Matt Neuburg's book (O'Reilly). If you're more of a novice to application programming, start with Erick's For Dummies book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Almost as good as a television sitcom - but has less depth..
Sorry. The predominant view has proven once again to be justified. I'm sorry I let my optimism lead me to purchase this book to find out. It really is a badly edited collection of unexplained and useless gimmicks. If there is a concept presented that has any worth in learning to write your own code, than it is extremely well hidden among the error laden examples.I have every book on RealBasic available now, and the O'Reilly book is the only one that truly helps one learn the product AND programming. On the other hand, Eric's book is good to build confidence without much lasting programming value. This book cannot claim to teach or build confidence - although I found it an interesting exercise debugging and proofreading the text and code - representing perhaps the only real experience to be gained through the use of this text.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good Examples...
When I purchased this book at a B&M, I was somewhat concerned after I read the reviews on this site. I decided to read the book and make my own judgements. Boy, I'm glad I did. The book has many good examples, and aside from the mistake in code for chapter 3 (the only reason it didn't get 5 stars), I think it does a good job of teaching REALbasic.Would definitely recommend it.
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