Learning Resources for VFP

[SleepDepD]

If you were going to have a friend or co-worker learn VFP, what books/learning resources would you give them? Would you just drop a copy of KiloFox on their desk...or are there some other good resources out there?

 

[TamarGranor]

If this is a beginner with VFP, I'd hand them a copy of "The Fundamentals" first.

Tamar

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Tamar,

Hadn't noticed you here. Your expertise is welcome here.
Welcome to Tek-Tips.

Mike Gagnon

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[Mike Gagnon]

Tamar,

I noticed that the book is listed to be "out of print" on Amazon. Is it still available?

Mike Gagnon

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[MarciaAkins]

Hi Mike.

I noticed that the book is listed to be "out of print" on Amazon. Is it still available?

Even though you cannot get hard copy, it is still available as an e-book.

And you can still download the code samples.



Marcia G. Akins

http://www.TightlineComputers.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Even though you cannot get hard copy, it is still available as an e-book.

Thank you Marcia for clearing that up.


Mike Gagnon

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[MarciaAkins]

Hello SleepDepD.

Would you just drop a copy of KiloFox on their desk

As much as I think that every desk should have at least one copy of Kilo on it ;-), it really is not a beginner's book. It will not teach you the basics. It is, however, a good next step after one has learned the language basics.




Marcia G. Akins

http://www.TightlineComputers.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Tamar

I may want to add the other VFP forums to your list Forum1252, Forum1253, Forum1254 and even forum182.



Mike Gagnon

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[TamarGranor]

I think I grabbed all the relevant forums when I signed up.

Tamar

 

[craigsboyd]

TamarGranor,

Well met! Glad to have you here.

SleepDepD,

Not really a book suggestion, but for someone who is a programmer and perhaps VFP is just a new language to them, I would say that the VFP help file can be a wealth of information on syntax and object models. If they are a VB programmer then something like the following could be very useful:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~__VfpToVbConcordance~VFP

...I find whenever I am picking up a new language that I'm thinking, "Well I know I would do this in VB, VC++, or VFP, but what is the equivalent in this language?".

On new IDE's I usually play a little bull in the china shop... clicking on everything in the menus and on the screens and toolbars if I don't know what it does. Then looking it up in the help file or doing a google search if I find that I am confused by whatever pops up.

Probably not the best way to go about things, but I find it greatly accelerates my ability to pick up the language whatever it may be. The other thing is doing some real though basic work in the language seems to help. I mean if I find myself reading a book that has me implementing a car base class and giving it a color property then I usually fall asleep on my keyboard.

Barring that, look up any books that were authored/co-authored by Tamar or Marcia and you're bound to end up with your money's worth. <g>

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[fitedgar]

TamarGranor,
We are glad to have on board as well.
EMC

 

[ronald777]

I would recommend also the 'hackers guide to visual foxpro 7.0'.

Not only for the book, but especailly the chm-helpfile u can dowlnload with this book, is very very usefull.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

I would recommend also the 'hackers guide to visual foxpro 7.0'.

Yes but far be it from Tamar to promote your own work ;-)





Mike Gagnon

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[Nifrabar]

I learned a lot (and still quit often do) of :
1001 things you always wanted to know about VFP.
-Bart