- Hardcover: 476 pages
- Publisher: SAP PRESS/GALILEO PRESS (19 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1592291538
- ISBN-13: 978-1592291533
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 899,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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If you'd like to learn how to program your first executable ABAP applications, then this book is your ideal companion. Whether or not you're already familiar with another programming language, you'll benefit from straightforward explanations and step-by-step instruction to efficiently master the basics of programming business-critical applications with ABAP.
Comprehensive, easy-to-follow descriptions introduce you to each of the relevant concepts and an ongoing practical scenario that continues throughout the book ensures that you familiarize yourself with all major areas of ABAP development. Numerous step-by-step procedures, screenshots, and solution tips are employed by the authors to describe procedural and object-oriented language elements in a clear and easy-to-understand way. In each chapter, you'll further extend the sample application, allowing you to build the skills needed to easily reproduce the development of a comprehensive ABAP application - including all of its intricate details.
Highlights Include:
* Getting Started with the System
* Object Navigator
* Procedural Language Elements
* Database Accesses
* User Interfaces and Screen Input and Output
* Object-Oriented Language Elements
* Software Architecture and Software Design
* SAP Programming Guidelines and Tools
Comprehensive, easy-to-follow descriptions introduce you to each of the relevant concepts and an ongoing practical scenario that continues throughout the book ensures that you familiarize yourself with all major areas of ABAP development. Numerous step-by-step procedures, screenshots, and solution tips are employed by the authors to describe procedural and object-oriented language elements in a clear and easy-to-understand way. In each chapter, you'll further extend the sample application, allowing you to build the skills needed to easily reproduce the development of a comprehensive ABAP application - including all of its intricate details.
Highlights Include:
* Getting Started with the System
* Object Navigator
* Procedural Language Elements
* Database Accesses
* User Interfaces and Screen Input and Output
* Object-Oriented Language Elements
* Software Architecture and Software Design
* SAP Programming Guidelines and Tools
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The english version of this book has been updated and revised in 2011. At the moment of writing this review, July 2011, the last trial (or developer edition) of SAP Netweaver Application Server with ABAP is version 7.02.
Unfortunately, this book includes many dialogs and forms that match only with release 6.10, SAP Web Application Server. Also, some examples show obsolete functions. For instance, GUID_CREATE, POPUP_TO_CONFIRM_NEXT_STEP, etc.
Taking price into consideration, this book is a little expensive for only 500 pages. Also, it's frustrating to see that SAP Press doesn't provide a way to download the source code of the book. For instance, programming the practice scenario in chapter 7 takes a long time. The programs and functions modules in this chapter cover twenty five pages. After writing 20 pages of code... is sad to discover that some functions are incomplete. For example, the function zptb00_obj_doc_book
Last, the book site doesn't provide an area with errata information, and i've found some programming and typo mistakes.
At overall, "ABAP Basics (2nd edition)" has been my first book from SAP Press, and it's a good entry for a newbie with ABAP.
Unfortunately, this book includes many dialogs and forms that match only with release 6.10, SAP Web Application Server. Also, some examples show obsolete functions. For instance, GUID_CREATE, POPUP_TO_CONFIRM_NEXT_STEP, etc.
Taking price into consideration, this book is a little expensive for only 500 pages. Also, it's frustrating to see that SAP Press doesn't provide a way to download the source code of the book. For instance, programming the practice scenario in chapter 7 takes a long time. The programs and functions modules in this chapter cover twenty five pages. After writing 20 pages of code... is sad to discover that some functions are incomplete. For example, the function zptb00_obj_doc_book
Last, the book site doesn't provide an area with errata information, and i've found some programming and typo mistakes.
At overall, "ABAP Basics (2nd edition)" has been my first book from SAP Press, and it's a good entry for a newbie with ABAP.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Currently I am learning SAP R/3 as a self study. The ABAP Basics has allowed myself to understand the complex behind development of modules.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Good starter
14 July 2008
Format:Hardcover
As someone with no prior ABAP experience - but with extensive software development experience - I found this book to be a pretty good primer.
The early chapters give you enough to get up and going - although there is a certain lack of depth to most topics. Being someone with previous software development experience and having gotten used to the PC-style books which encourage 'doing' and experimentation, this aspect of the book wasn't too much of an inconvenience. Your mileage may vary.
The book also gave me enough information to navigate around a very unfamiliar system, and more importantly, a starting point for further exploration. There were, however, numerous times when I found myself asking why something was done a certain way or how the various parts fit together and how they interacted with one another - no such answers to these questions are to be found in this book.
As such, I certainly wouldn't classify it as a 'university-type' of textbook - wherein you get that solid foundation on which to build upon. In fact, I am thinking about buying another book with more 'meat' on it - if only I could find one (any recommendations? and I'm not talking about a reference manual).
That being said, I'm not so sure if the previous point is a fair one. Having just re-read the back cover blurb - IMHO, it meets the goals it lays out for itself.
So why four stars out of five?
First and most importantly - the book needs a good English speaking editor (in fact, all the SAP books I have so far purchase have this same failing). I've been developing for over two decades now, and having to learn ABAP has finally impressed upon me the need for good communication. Until now, I've never realized how lucky I've been that software development is a predominantly English experience - I now have a much healthier respect for developers who are non-native English speakers. Technical material can be highly obtuse at times - throw in a bad translation or a total disregard for grammer and the obtuse becomes downright cryptic. While this book is by far one of the more readable ABAP books - it too had a couple of places that required more that a few re-reads (which IMHO is highly problematic since it's a basic-level book).
Second, if I remember correctly, Exercise 5.2 is 47 pages long. Really now. Is this any way to impart knowledge? Maybe. IMHO, a good teacher would've broken it down into more digestable pieces.
The early chapters give you enough to get up and going - although there is a certain lack of depth to most topics. Being someone with previous software development experience and having gotten used to the PC-style books which encourage 'doing' and experimentation, this aspect of the book wasn't too much of an inconvenience. Your mileage may vary.
The book also gave me enough information to navigate around a very unfamiliar system, and more importantly, a starting point for further exploration. There were, however, numerous times when I found myself asking why something was done a certain way or how the various parts fit together and how they interacted with one another - no such answers to these questions are to be found in this book.
As such, I certainly wouldn't classify it as a 'university-type' of textbook - wherein you get that solid foundation on which to build upon. In fact, I am thinking about buying another book with more 'meat' on it - if only I could find one (any recommendations? and I'm not talking about a reference manual).
That being said, I'm not so sure if the previous point is a fair one. Having just re-read the back cover blurb - IMHO, it meets the goals it lays out for itself.
So why four stars out of five?
First and most importantly - the book needs a good English speaking editor (in fact, all the SAP books I have so far purchase have this same failing). I've been developing for over two decades now, and having to learn ABAP has finally impressed upon me the need for good communication. Until now, I've never realized how lucky I've been that software development is a predominantly English experience - I now have a much healthier respect for developers who are non-native English speakers. Technical material can be highly obtuse at times - throw in a bad translation or a total disregard for grammer and the obtuse becomes downright cryptic. While this book is by far one of the more readable ABAP books - it too had a couple of places that required more that a few re-reads (which IMHO is highly problematic since it's a basic-level book).
Second, if I remember correctly, Exercise 5.2 is 47 pages long. Really now. Is this any way to impart knowledge? Maybe. IMHO, a good teacher would've broken it down into more digestable pieces.
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