I cannot judge it in those terms. But it did help me a great deal regarding OOP, COM and classes. The exercises are simple.

You would agree that before we start writing software we need to understand how the engine works. In the days of VFP grid consultants, what you say made a lot of sense - but it also made a lot of VFP naysayers.

Before we play the drum solo to "In Agadda Di Vida", we usually need to learn the rudiments of beat and the difference between a rim tap and a Zilgen. I also get the sense that the author has a lot of fun writing VFP programs - and that is important. I also sense that that the book was more a "contribution" to the community than a corporate pulp profit engine.

Bazian was already pretty successful when he wrote this. It's a labor of love, more explanation, discusson and code than screen shots.

What's more, one of the best features of VFP is it's interactivity. We can throw controls on a form, add nodes, delete nodes, click nodes - all from the command window. A good way to "see" how it fits together. Faster, and maybe better, that testing only an execution or through the debugger.

We have to crawl before we can walk - otherwise we look like a chimpanzee - I hope no chimps are offended!:-)

But each to his own!

>IMO, this book is good at interactively using VFP, but not very good on the application development end.
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