Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0

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Waste of time, paper, and money [Posted on 2000-09-07]
There would be some benefit from this book if you could weed out the cutesy comments, but it's just too hard to do. On every page are numerous sentences to waste your time. When programming and studying you need to concentrate. You don't want to see "(and Santa)" when reading about clauses. There is a section called "Doing it in public" and it asks things like "Can you offer a subroutine a good home?" Hey, can you give me a break?

You can't find what you want either. There are 953 pages. And the table of contents is only 2 pages. It would fit even on one page if you removed Benjamin Franklin's epitaph that takes up half of the first page. (No kidding - They really added B.F.'s epitaph to a FoxPro book.) But, a table of contents at any length is no good when the chapter titles are things like "Your server will be with you in a moment" and "OOP is not an accident." You know, "Mom was right", the section titles are even more worthless.

The New Testament for VFP Programmers [Posted on 2001-04-24]
This is the book that every VFP programmer needs to have on their shelf, and on their machine. Many people use the .CHM file that is included with the book as their primary help reference, in place of the one that ships with VFP.

This book documents all of the functions, commands, and PEMs of Visual FoxPro, including the ones that are no longer documented by Microsoft. It tells you how they work, how they're supposed to work, and what they're good for. When there's a bug, or something that looks like a bug but is actually the correct behavior, it is pointed out with cute icons in the margin.

Tamar and Ted also spend a good deal of time explaning the history of Fox, and how Visual Foxpro differs from earlier versions. They also cover how to create builders and wizard templates.

Without The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0, I would never have gotten as far as I have. Buy this book, and learn more than you thought possible. :-)

Awesome VFP 6.0 Reference [Posted on 2001-06-22]
Every Visual FoxPro programmer should has this book at their desk. I read an earlier review which gave it a 1 star. Well give them a break. This book has excellent content!! The sayings and quotes are to keep you alert ( or if you read the whole book, awake). This is THE BEST Visual FoxPro book on THE PLANET!!

NOT a good book to learn FoxPro! [Posted on 2002-06-18]
Rip the first few chapters out of this book and it is a pretty good reference book. However, before figuring out that this is ONLY a reference book the reader must suffer through 150 pages of ridiculous "dummies" book snippets. I tend to read my new technical books front to back the first time. But I came very close to dropping this book in the trash before I realized there was worthwhile material behind the first three chapters of dribble. If you're trying to learn FoxPro, buy something else!

Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 [Posted on 2004-10-25]
I am new to Visual Foxpro after many years of using Foxpro for DOS 2.0 and I thought that this book would help me learn Visual Foxpro.

The authors state in the beginning of the book that if you are looking to learn Visual Foxpro from a beginners level then this book isn't for you. The authors state that the book is an intermediate level book.

The book is mainly a glorified help menu like what you would find if you clicked on the help tab at the top of a program. The book didn't help me in trying to learn Visual Foxpro. I needed a book that would explain the concepts of Object-Oriented-Programming and this book didn't do it for me.

If you already know Visual Foxpro then perhaps the information in this book might come in handy, otherwise don't waste your money.

I wish that I had known this before I spent my money on a used copy of this book. Hopefully my review will keep someone else from making the same mistake.

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