Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0557007585 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"EXACTLY what I needed" according to James Wilmoth. You probably know how difficult it is to find a good book on OpenOffice.org Base and Basic.I scoured the Internet for tutorials, wikis, helps, ANYTHING to get me going! (the OpenOffice doc sites are still a dark underworld to me) To make matters worse, I'm so addicted to IDE's that gently hold my hand with their inline API suggestions that OpenOffice.org's IDE stoic silence was about as easy to love as a tree! To make matters even worse, I've spent the last 8 or so years buried in Java; I could hardly remember how to speak Basic from those good 'ol years of GWBasic, QBasic, VBEXACTLY what I needed You probably know how difficult it is to find a good book on OpenOffice.org Base and Basic.I scoured the Internet for tutorials, wikis, helps, ANYTHING to get me going! (the OpenOffice doc sites are still a dark underworld to me) To make matters worse, I'm so addicted to IDE's that gently hold my hand with their inline API suggestions that OpenOffice.org's IDE stoic silence was about as easy to love as a tree! To make matters even worse, I've spent the last 8 or so years buried in Java; I could hardly remember how to speak Basic from those good 'ol years of GWBasic, QBasic, VB3.0, and VB6.0 (long, long ago!).Suffice it to say, this bo. .0, and VB6.0 (long, long ago!).Suffice it to say, this bo. OpenOffice Base Programming Most of the book is logical. Occasionally, he skips important steps. For example, on page 136 he has a step-by-step discussion on how to link a master and slave field. In one sentence he glosses over about seven steps, which took me a couple hours to figure out--only after re-reading the chapter about two times, did I figure out how to accomplish this.The author assumes the reader knows more than he/she should. If you are technically savvy, you will benefit from this book. Otherwise, you may need to use other sources as well.. Not Helpful As with so many books of this type, I did not find it to be helpful. I am a rank amateur at programming OpenOffice products. Instead of working with elementary and helpful examples, he starts off with step 17. It would be more useful if he started with step #1.
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