MVP Book Suggestions

[Jay]

Hi all,

I've posted a few times and been reading the boards for a while and I'm
scared by how much the MVPs know. But in a good way. So I'd like to pick
your brains on a book question.

Can you suggest any particular books that you feel Access programmers should
have? Maybe your top 5? Do you have a favourite publisher/series/author?
Maybe one is good for DB design and another for VBA?

I'm specifically working in A97, so if there were any gold-standard A97
books, feel free to pass those along as well.

Just curious to know what the pros use.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[Roger Carlson]

There's already a list here: http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/books.htm
Here's my list:
http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/linksRecommededreading.html

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[Alex Dybenko]

Hi,
certainly Access Developer's Handbook is number 1
Furthermore I learned a lot from F. Scott Barker's "Microsoft Access Power
Programming"
I think i read it in Access 95 time

 

[Baz]

Hi,
certainly Access Developer's Handbook is number 1
Furthermore I learned a lot from F. Scott Barker's "Microsoft Access Power
Programming"
I think i read it in Access 95 time

And the VBA Developer's Handbook from the same publisher, Sybex. Both
excellent in the 97 versions, maybe you could pick up cheaply on eBay.

 

[PC Datasheet]

Access XXX VBA, Sussman and Smith, Wrox -- the bible for learning VBA

 

[David C. Holley]

SYBEX put out a book that was recommend to me as the "Bible". In fact,
in a conversation with Pat (who recommended it), she joked about today's
sermon on DAO being out of Chapter 14 starting with subsection 4.
The name of the book, if I recall was 'Access Developer's Handbook'. You
may also want to snoop around for books that discuss database design as
well as developing Office soultions - books that cover how to use VBA to
control Excel, Outlook, Word etc.

 

[David C. Holley]

I'd also recommend that snoop around for various books on Requirements
Gathering, Data Modeling and Process Analysis. The three subjects should
give you a good background in the design side of things. Also, I would
look up information on truth tables. I was introduced to them in Digital
Electronics 10+ years ago and have quite surprisingly used them
countless times in figuring out assorted issues. (They're also kind of
fun to play with - at least for me, ok I am a geek.)

David H

 

[Tim Ferguson]

Can you suggest any particular books that you feel Access programmers
should have?

"Code Complete" by Steve McConnell; Microsoft Press 1993


Tim F