Special Edition Using PowerBuilder 6

by Charles A. Wood, Bill Heys, William B. Hayes

Using a step-by-step approach this text explains how to program using PowerBuilder 6. It includes intermediate to advanced level information along with notes and tips aimed at people interested in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078971437X
• ISBN13: 9780789714374
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 900 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Its a good book but it takes a while to get through it

Its a very good book but I don't think it targets beginners as much as it claims to. There is a tutorial that runs through the book but it doesn't give concise instructions of the steps one should follow. If these were clearly indicated I would give the book 5/5. I feel that one should know a little about Powerbuilder before attempting to approach this book. However it is so detailed that it takes a while to complete, this can be percieved as a good or a bad thing.

Good book for object-oriented developers

For someone who just wants to learn the PowerBuilder painters, the other books are fine. The strength of this book is that it teaches you to build in PowerBuilder the RIGHT way...by building in an object-oriented way. Most new PowerBuilder developers know just enough to shoot themselves in the foot. This book takes more effort, but its examples are much closer to real development than the other intro books I have reviewed.

Excellent Review and a real benefit for practical work

This is the first powerbuilder book, I read that seems to be not only a compendium but delivers as well many pratical nice choosen examples. On the first look, you got the impression that this is only an adapted book to the next version, but if you really take a look you will remark many details which are carefully done. I recommend that book to all newcomers to powerbuilder as well as a to experienced developers. The index is very well done.

Practical advice on how to REALLY use PowerBuilder well.

Contains a lot of good examples. I've been using PB since version 2.0 and I've found that I've learned a lot of things from presentations by the author. This book is a lot like Bill's presentations: Informative, Insightful, and Engaging. There is something for beginning PB programmers that want to become advanced and the advanced programmers that want to get up to speed on the new PB features. The PB-Internet chapter is worth the price of the whole book.