Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu From: byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock,134G LC,3355553,) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: What book for course with Paradox? Message-ID: <2223@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 30 Aug 90 18:48:07 GMT References: <28908@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 34 From article <28908@netnews.upenn.edu>, by shull@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher E. Shull): > Hi y'all, > > I'm teaching an course on the design and implementation of business > information systems this fall, and have been provided with Borland's > Paradox RDBMS as the vehicle for student implementation projects. > > Borland will not allow us to photocopy their instructional materials or > manuals, so we would like your recommendations on third party books that > won't cost "too much", but will provide a reasonable tutorial and a good, > thoroughly indexed reference section. Please indicate title, author, > publisher, year, price, number of pages, ratio of tutorial to reference, > and other useful comments. I would recommend "Hands-On Paradox3" by Steven and Douglas Cobb, Ken Richardson, Jeff Yocum. Published by The Cobb Group Inc. Copyright 1989. It is a self-paced training workbook including an exercise diskette. It is 414 pages and references the book "The Paradox 3.0 Handbook" as well as the regular Paradox manuals. You can buy "The Paradox 3.0 Handbook" and "Hands- On Paradox3" as a set for @ $75.95, or just the "The Paradox 3.0 Handbook" for @ $32.95. "The Paradox 3.0 Handbook" is by Douglas Cobb, Jeff Yocum, and Brian Smith, publisher Bantam Books. Call The Cobb Group at 1-800-223-8720 for more information. Also, if you are teaching PAL (Paradox Application Language) programming you will want to get "Paradox Programmer's Guide, PAL by Example" by Alan Zeinreich and James N. Kocis, published by Scott Foresman and Company. Copyright 1990. It is an excellent technical reference for just $29.95. -- Bill Yock, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu