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Learn Access VBA 2003 With The Smart Method
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Brilliant book and fast service
Very pleased with the book so far and the service was fast recommend both the book and service..
Highly Recommended
This is the way that self-teach books should be written. Easy to pick up and follow. It takes you step by step and is written in flowing narrative language which doesn't leave you stuck at any point.
I don't think that this is the only thing you will ever need to become a proficient Access programmer; you will need practise creating your own applications and working on various projects. But as books come, I can't imagine a better way of learning Access VBA and I can imagine having this book to hand when I want to develop my own applications.
The book font is clear with lots of illustrations and notes in the margin. I also like the bite sized chunks they break down the lessons into.
As other reviews have mentioned, you need to be a little familiar with Access before purchasing this book. But then again, the level you need to be isn't very high. It takes you almost from the point of "no knowledge".
An Excellent Book Even For Access Novices
I only bought this book because it was recommended when I purchased 2 other Access books. I am very glad I did, because although it teaches you how to use VBA, it also gives some essential ground rules before starting a database that the other books I purchased did not cover. I was so impressed with how these simple rules made the coding of Access so much more robust and professional, that I went back and re-engineered what I had already written! I would recommend Mike Smart's book even to a novice such as myself and can guarantee that in no-time, you will be writing VBA in your database applications.
Excellent - I wish I'd bought & read this book sooner!
I was completely new to Access, and needed to develop a reasonably complex database application very quickly at my workplace.
In order to get up to speed without delay, I bought a number of books on the subject. I initially didn't own the Smart book, but was instead reading the "for dummies" ones (they were "accessible"). However I quickly realised something was missing, and tried looking elsewhere.
I stumbled on the Smart Method. It is the book I wish I'd read WAY sooner. It begins establishing essential first principles, something the other books miserably failed to do. It then takes the reader through a very logical journey of learning, one clearly-explained step at a time.
If I'd read this sooner, it would have saved me a great deal of heartache.
Although it is designed ostensibly for those wishing to enter the realms of VBA, the first third of the book just looks at the very basics of database construction, with no VBA in sight. The solid principles communicated at the outset are invaluable; worth the price of the book alone (and then some).
Incidentally I use Access 2007, but there are no appreciable differences between the versions, so this book is still completely relevant to 2007 as well as the 2003 in the title.
If you're using Access, then whether you're a novice or an advanced user, I can't recommend this book highly enough. I'm so impressed with the Smart Method I'll definitely be looking at their other titles in the series.
The perfect VBA book!
This book is everything I wanted and more!
Finally a book which doesn't assume you know absolutely everything about Access before launching into VBA! This book breaks you in gently, with step by step instructions for each example in plain english, which you can follow without an in depth knowledge of Access itself.
It does require that you have a basic understanding of how to create tables, queries, forms and reports using the wizards, but I would assume that most people diving into Access VBA are already somewhat familiar with that.
Personally, my knowledge was a bit sketchy, having mostly self-taught through changing things in existing code and breaking them until they worked, then going to forums to ask others how to fix things, however the approach taken in this book really worked well. It allows you to read about a new bit of code, then see it work, and then try it out in an example at the end of the section. Suddenly lightbulbs were firing off all over the place .. "ahhh, so THAT'S why that bit of code wouldn't work the other month!!"
All the way through there are code examples and screenshots, so that if you do get completely lost you can work back and figure out what you're confused about, re-read the examples, check over the sample code and hopefully figure it out.
I actually noticed a couple of minor errors in the book which meant my code wasn't working, and was amazed to receive a reply back from Mike within 24 hours, correcting the word which was wrong and hence allowing my code to work (woohoo!) - the first time I've ever had a reply back from an author when highlighting or suggesting something in their book. Mike was very keen to receive feedback which is a really good thing, in my opinion.
I would definitely DEFINITELY recommend this book to people starting out in VBA - I now understand how the "guts" of Access works and can start to write my own code rather than fiddle about with things until they break, which is a huge saving in time and frustrations!
I'll definitely be using this as a reference guide for some time to come, and passing it on to other colleagues who want to learn about the subject area - can't recommend it highly enough.
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