Beginning Access 2003 VBA

by Denise M. Gosnell

What is this book about? Written by an Access programmer with more than 10 years of VBA experience, this is the perfect guide for Access users who are ready to take their databases to the next level,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764556592
• ISBN13: 9780764556593
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

I took program courses years ago in college and was a very good programmer. However I never ventured into visual language because I found them confusing. This book will get you started. It gives you all the basics. If you have done old basic you need to get past the terminology but the example explain themselves. It give you skill but like any art you need to put it on the canvas. Great book!

Excellent book!

I've never coded in VBA. I've always relied on the macros in MS Access to do everything I needed to do. However, I picked this book up to try and learn a few new things. By the time I got through chapter 6, I was writing VBA code like it was nothing. Incredible text written so the novice user can understand it with excellent hands-on examples and exercies both provide a tremendous self educational experience for the most basic of VBA programmers (such as myself).

Great Beginner to Intermediate Book on Access and VBA

I must highly recommend this book by Denise Gosnell. After skimming through about 20 books on the subject at a super bookstore in Melbourne, I decided this book was the best by far. I must admit, I am beginning to become slightly discouraged at the amount of books out there - especially on PHP and MySQL that I decided to bite the bullet and learn Access and Visual Basic programming. This book gives you great examples and you CAN go to any chapter depending on your current skill level without being thrown on a tangent of fancy techniques and confusing explanations. All I want in a book, is someone to TEACH me through step by step explanations and well thought out sample exersizes. Denise has a wonderful ability to write and keep up your enthusiasm to keep perservering. I highly commend everyone give this book a go and you will see what I am talking about. Thank you Denise, I look forward to reading some more of you work in the near future.

Good Programming practices

I have been programming in VB for about 12 years and I found this 'Beginning' book VERY useful. Most books give you syntax on how to write certain 'things' but fail to give you good programming practice examples. This may not be pointed out to a novice user, but if you are familiar with any type coding and 'read' between the lines, one will notice great coding examples. Shows you examples of what to place in modules to separate business logic from the user forms from database logic, and etc. Great examples Denise. Please keep up the good work. Most books will have you type the same info in every VB module or form showing functionality without showing good separation of logic and good programming practice. I fully enjoyed this book and hope to hear more from Denise in future books....

A Good Starting Point for Access VBA

I spent some time looking at various titles that covered VBA for Access. Ms.Gosnell's offering Access 2003 VBA was not the first book I purchased on the subject, but was the one that I have worked through and found to be very useful. (I took the other one back) It is arranged in a logical way and doesn't dwell on database theory and planning, although it offers some useful tools to aid in that process. It gets down to the subject quickly and leads the reader through a development sequence that includes examples that are practical and that I could put to work the next day. The text is clear and the programing examples are easy to follow and implement. They are also downloadable. She does assume that you are reasonably Access literate but doesn't get bogged down in jargon. It is a great place to start for a VBA novice.