Customer Review: This book is very clear. You can skip the C++ stuff if you want, and it will still be excellent.
It's the kind of book that you read without having to go back and re-read paragraphs (well, I did that sometimes -- but most of the times the text is very clear). If you're "somewhat"... more info
Customer Review: The book is intented to serve as an introductory textbook for undergraduate college students. I'll bet that half the class will drop the course before they finish Chapter Four, where the description of E-R diagrams is, at best, utterly confusing. In fact, the author consistently introduces terms and... more info
Customer Review: The book is so heavy on words that it is hard to follow. The author started with ER Diagrams (he made it very complicated when it is not that hard) and then jumped into SQL. Needs more SQL and less ER Diagrams. Then he went into Hard Drive and memory, which is not necessary. This books should be... more info
Customer Review: The pace is very slow for the really basic stuff while more sophisticated techniques, such as correlated sub-queries, are not explained well enough. There are numerous errors in the book which suggest the authors don't really know Microsoft Access. Clearly, some of the worked problems were only... more info