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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sams "Obstruct Yourself" from Microsoft Access in 21 Days, 14 Sep 2000
By A Customer
It is not your desire to learn which takes you through the book, but sheer determination !The book lacks a steady learning curve. It delivers the information in pieces which can be difficult to place in context. Which made me feel like reading a traditional text book, but without a lecturer and fellow students to support me. There are several errors in the book. It is obviously based on the Beta version of Access 2000, which makes it more troublesome to locate the needed buttons and commands. The samples from the CD will not install automatically, you will have to copy them one by one and change the properties by removing the Read-Only attribute. The code you are asked to write, to gain hands-on experience, is filled with syntax errors. Therefore your examples will not work, which makes it very difficult to proceed to the next task. After I have read the book, and in the process worked my way around the errors, I feel I have a very good picture of what Access 2000 is capable of, and in what direction I should go to accomplish my programming goals. If you are new to Access 2000, and want to program a database (Private/Semi-professional level) your will be able to learn how from the book. The book includes lots of information, but makes it difficult and tiresome to learn Access in 21 days. If only the publisher had a supporting website to list errors, it could have done so much better.
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