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Title: Very poorly organized text
Review: The author covers a lot of ground in this introductory book. Unfortunately, he seems to given little thought to the order in which he presents the material or the clarity of his explanations. As a result, sometimes difficult concepts are made to appear even more confusing than they actually are.For example, in discussing universal data access using ADO the author mentions that you can "use the Recordset object's Open method to execute the query that will return the desired cursor type." (p. 547) This comment could easily leave many readers muttering "Say what" under their breath since, up to this point, the author has made no mention of all of the concept of cursor type. This is but one instance (there are many others) of a level of pedagogical sloppiness that is inexcusable in a book meant to guide beginning programmers.
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