Binding: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 660
Publication Date: 1999-10
Sales Rank: 1125108
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Rating:  - A Potentially Outstanding Computer Book That Is Flawed By It's Style
Matt Neuburg is a genius. This is both a blessing and a curse for those who want to learn REALbasic. In his love for REALbasic, and his desire to teach it all and be exhaustive, as well as write a book that he himself would like to read, he takes a certain course: he covers terrain that is both flat, smooth and quick to run over, and terrain that is deep, craggy, convoluted and only for the determined traveler. There is no warning when you might suddenly encounter the unforgiving steep canyon or ... Read More
Rating:  - Definitive for REALbasic 3 but not for REALbasic 2006
In its day was the best REALbasic book around. Sure, it was a little bit of a hard read, but it was still the best. But not anymore. Let's hope O'reilly decides to publish a 3rd edition.
Rating: - Sadly, The Best Book On REALbasic Programming
Computer books tend to be outdated rather quickly, sometimes before hitting the shelves. Programming books tend to have a longer shelf life.
When REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition was released over four years ago in 2001, it was current and truly the definitive book on REALbasic. It still is, though that isn't the praise you might think.
The folks at REALsoftware are constantly improving the language and the Definitive Guide was outdated by 2003. Today it is ... Read More
Rating:  - RealBasic -- but dated
This is the best reference for REALBasic version 3, as of September 2005. However, you should be aware that REALBasic was at version 5.5.5 as of June, 2005, and REALBasic 2005 was released August of 2005.
Also, REALBasic started out on Macintosh platforms. It has now been ported to Windows -- but that's fairly recent, too. Thus, this book covers mostly Macintosh or generic applications.
O'Reilly seems to have dropped support for this book, too. This means there won't be ... Read More
Rating: - Not the definitive guide
I've been using Realbasic for many years. If you are expecting to actually use Realbasic to build practical applications, this book will not be of use to you. As others have stated, if you are beginner, this book will not be very helpful to you. I've seen some really helpful books for learning and using Java and VB, but unfortunately Realbasic doesn't have the same quality of books out there (nor will it ever, likely). The omissions in this book are glaring, the writing style unnecessarily obtuse. ... Read More
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