Mark,

While the books you listed are all good, I can't help but stress you get him some formal training. Be it a lecture-based curriculum like AppDev (www.appdev.com) or a hands-on curriculum like we offer (www.takenote.com), I think you'll find a weeks worth of training is worth 6 months of "trying to figure it all out" with books. I think you'll find all the VFP trainers up here will agree with me on that one...

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If sending this person to a training class is out of the question, we offer our VFP training materials as self-study tools. They have tons of information and are loaded with hands-on exercises.

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Hope this helps...