The following
book list is provided as an aid to groups planning to take one of our
courses. Hopefully, it will prove useful to others as well. We are an
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Our
Introductory Microsoft Access courses use the following book as a
reference. It is inexpensive and you may want to have a copy for each
one or two students.
Frye, Curtis
(2001) *
Microsoft Access Version 2002 Plain and Simple.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1454-7. [ a
simple, visual type book. Good for beginners. We chose this book
because it has the broadest topic coverage of the "visual"
type books we looked at.]
In
addition we recommend that each organization or group have a copy of
the following available for their use. It is an excellent
intermediate level reference.
Prague, Cary
N. and Michael R. Irwin (1999) **
Microsoft Access 2000 Bible.
New York, NY: Hungry Minds. ISBN 0-7645-3286-3. [ the, well,
bible for Microsoft Access. Very thorough
reference at the intermediate level. Good for both users and developers.
If
you are going to be using Access extensively you should have this
book. Groups taking our classes should own a copy of this book or its
equivalent. ] Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
The following are additional
Access books you may want to consider.
Balter, Alison
(1999) * Mastering
Microsoft Access 2000 Development.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31484-3. [
oriented to developers as opposed to users. Good technical reference
with lots of short code examples. By a well known Access and FoxPro
trainer. ] Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
Duffy, Tim
(2000) Microsoft
Access 2000.Microsoft
Certified Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN
0-201-45916-7. [ Strongly oriented to beginning Microsoft
Office users. Former
text for this course. One of the better "visual" type
books on Access. Text and exercises follow Microsoft Official
Curriculum for Proficient level of MOUS exam. ]
Hahn, Pamela
Rice, and Keith Giddeon. (1999) How
to use Microsoft Access 2000.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31589-0. [ simple
and straightforward
"visual" type book on MS Access. ]
Wempen,
Faith (1999) * Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 10 Minutes.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31487-8. [ very
good value for the money. An inexpensive, and brief, but well done
little introduction to Access. We often recommend this book to
students in our classes. ]Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
Related
book lists:
The following
book lists
on this site may prove of interest as well: MS
Access Macros,
MS
Access SQL
and Relational
Database Design.
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