Official PowerBuilder® 6 Fundamentals, Second Edition

By Steve Erlank and Craig Levin

This guide aims to provide two services: it includes complete inside instruction on using PowerBuilder 6.0; and it is also should make underlying GUI concepts easy to understand. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850329176
• ISBN13: 9781850329176
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Coriolis Group
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Beginners...Start Here!!!

I had no PowerBuilder experience whatsoever, but after going through this book I have developed several applications. The book is written in a very basic and step-by-step manner. This is the best PowerBuilder book I have come across for beginners ever!

Great Book for Beginners

I highly recommend this book for beginners; definitely this is a great value! I started as a programmer two months ago. I had never been exposed to PowerBuilder, and I had to make some modifications to an existing PowerBuilder application. By reading the book and following the tutorial application, in less than two weeks I was able to understand the basics of how PowerBuilder works. The book is also so well organized; it was very easy for me to locate which events to modify within the application, and which PowerScript commands to use. The book is so easy to follow and understand.

Excellent book especially for programming neophytes

This book is an excellent tutorial, even for the beginning programmer. If the instructions are followed as written, the results on the screen match the results in the book...the first time this has ever happened for me. It gives one a real sense of confidence. The book is wonderful, but the CD isn't. I got the 30-day demo to run by downloading and installing the one from the PowerSoft internet site, and haven't found much on the CD that has been useful yet.

Ideal book to get a great start in Powerbuilder.

When I thought of teaching myself Powerbuilder, the biggest dellima that I faced was to choose a good book. I tried out books which teaches step by step procedures in getting started with powerbuilder, but the biggest draw back of those books were that they were more like a receipe rather than providing with concepts. The official Poerbuilder 6.0 fundamentals was the best book that I read. It provides good explanation and also in deatils the real working of an application. I strongly suggest this book to anyone who is interested in the fundamentals of Powerbuilder.

Excellent introduction for beginners.

I bought this book in desperation, after having trudged through the awful Using PowerBuilder 6 by Que, and having learned very little. It is an excellent, well designed, and thoughtfully laid out introduction to PowerBuilder that will have you up and coding in no time. I was a little put off by the 'Official' tag, expecting a re-hash of the online help, but this is an outside publication, written by people who know what they are talking about, and more importantly, know how to explain what they know. The book is divided into sections, each building on the previous. The tutorial in Section B is a great introduction to building applications with PowerBuilder. Forget Que's book, this is the introduction for beginners, and it also covers more advanced topics not even mentioned in Using PowerBuilder, like modifying the database .ini files. In summary, a great buy!