Programming Books

This is a good book for beginners and it continues to prove useful for a long time for examples. All the code is on a CD and if you pull it all into one file in Word and run it through Acrobat, you have a very useful quick reference to find instances where a particular object has been used.

Don't you just love the on-line help in Microsoft! Not! The worst time is when you know you saw a really neat example for using Style the other day, but it was not in the Style section of the manual. Well, this book makes it a smidgen easier — you can leaf through it and mark interesting things with a highlighter and so on. But if you really want to do it properly, buy a copy of dotHLP (on the Links page) and convert the Microsoft .hlp file into a Word file and run that file through Acrobat and index it automatically with Acrobat Catalog — then you can find any example containing Style in two shakes of a lamb's tail! Take note, Bill, this is how it ought to be as standard delivery!

Do I still use the book? Yep! I read/browse through it from time to time because I always find something new I can use or apply with a little bit of creativity. And that is something you cannot do online so easily, especially when sitting in certain places.

This book is still on our to read list. Now that we have managed to create a web site without it, there are a couple of places where a simple form might be handy. So, next week ....