This book lacks any real substance about the Delphi language and merely glosses over topics. Leave it on the shelf and the money in your pocket.

Tthis is not only the worst technical book I have ever seen, but is worse than I could have ever imagined. It totally fails to meet any of the promises on the cover. It contains a very superficial look at Delphi using a cookbook approach, padded out with long sections of irrelevant material (e.g. descriptions of Windows API functions, a section on writing DLLs in C), some of which are just inaccurate (e.g. the sections on the Registry and OLE). It is quite clear that the author only has a superficial knowledge of Delphi and prefers writing about other subjects he understands or half-understands

While this book is mostly unremarkable, it has an informative chapter on how to interact with a network via the Windows API, dynamically map drives, capture printers, etc.

This book appears to be a collaberation between Andre Norton and Grace Hogarth, but it reads very unlike Ms. Norton's style. I was very disappointed in this book and had to stop reading it after only three chapters. The plot was very predictable, the characters are not very believable. I have to think Ms. Norton only glanced at what Ms. Hogarth was writing, and did not contribute to this book either in plotlines or in characterizations. Don't waste your money!

Fredericka, a librarian on vacation, is definitely not a modern woman, being given to attacks of fright and a reluctance to do anything without the approval of the men in her life. A dead body in the backyard is a good reason to be nervous, but not to avoid going out, especially since murder isn't mentioned for quite a ways into the book. It's a good period piece, but has to be read with an eye to the times, as the characters all smoke and actions taken for granted in the 50's ie smoking in bed are no-nos in todays world. The solution was good, and the plot worked, but it seemed a little contrived, especially to a child of the computer age.

I had the misfortune of slogging through the first forty pages of this trite and immature piece of writing, before throwing it out. It does a great institution like Harvard a disservice and I can't believe that Harvard would allow its name to be attached to this.

I had the pleasure to read through this book under such a sick title. In short, the book is nothing but a joke made by a self-important person who needs very serious help in his spiritual world. Most of his words echoed how leading firms in Corporate America recruit staff. As a former Harvard Business School graduate, I would say, I am really ashamed of what I have seen daily. And the author clearly wants to make discrimination a religion. If people are no longer legally encouraged to judge by the color of skin, they are now awarded to judge simply by which school they are from. In the eye of some of my colleagues, or maybe the author, a corrupt foreign official who managed to send his son with stolen money to Harvard is clearly a much greater contributor to our society, if compared to a lowly waitor, whose son can only choose to go to a state school because of financial reasons.

Undoubtedly, Harvard is the most successful school in the United States. Yet, how successful? You can list a 1000 examples how Harvard changed this nation. However, those are out of 1,000,000 examples in most of which Harvard failed to do so. Harvard is lucky enough to attract the nation's most brilliant minds into its campus. Quite a few of them become incredibly successful. A lot more get quickly forgotten in this society.

I would like to draw an analogy here. When you are at the foot of a mountain, you feel even the sun was overshadowed by the mountain's great peak. If you stand right on the top of that peak, you might feel frustrated that the mountain does not bring you close enough to the sun while making you feel really cold.

It is hard to imagine that this book will be of much interest to anyone who is unfamiliar with Harvard. For former students the pertinent parts may serve as a mostly boring trip down memory lane. For the real insiders such as professors or administrators or influential alumni it may prove to be more exciting.

After finally finishing the book I can only conclude that a story about Harvard or maybe any academic institution is apt to be uninteresting. I feel the same way about the prospect of reading a history of IBM or Xerox - but someone else may find it thrilling.

i agree with all the other people when I say this is one of the worst review books I've ever read. The author uses awkward examples to explain concepts...and what is wrong with those names? shirley sixpack? Ambrose? Vanna Boogie? How about Author Dull? or Iam Perplexed? Even answers are given but it doesnt show how it was derived. And on top of that, I am positive the book contains number of errors. This makes it even more confusing for people trying to learn micro. Stay away from that orange book if you can.

I am a 1st year ph.d. student at a to 10 grad prog in econ. I thought I would use this book to brush up on really basic micro(I didn't major in micro in undergrad). On top of being confusing and badly written, I found 3 blatant errors in the first 3 pages. The other authors are right. This has to be worst textbook that I have ever seen.

For those of you unlucky enough to be forced into using this book, you have my deepest sympathy. I don't even know where to begin. Waste of space. Very confusing.

I have recently read this book, as a class novel, and I am really astonished that the Education Department has picked this book for a Class Novel. It is definetly the lowest kind of book there is.

I give it 1 star. There is no purpose to this book at all, and personally, I beleive this book could be put on "The Worst Books Of The 20th Century List!"

Clearly these authors have never been in a classroom in the last ten years! Activieis are outdated; current research on constructivism lacking.

i have read many of Nortons books, and myself own about 20. I have loved almost all of them, and never before have i encountered one that i disliked this much. I found that i could barely finish it, which is odd for me with ANY book. I would just like to warn prospective buyers to stick to Nortons other books, most of which rate four stars or higher, but just borrow this book from the library.

I just purshed the book and I found it to be a waste of money. The classroom or the student can find them selves just fine without it. Do not buy it if you don't have to. YOu can always reuse someone else's code..........and the disk is just a regular floppy disk that can be formated.

I found this book to be more of a so-called cultural study instead of the old-fashioned facts-and-chronologies accounts of history. The book is highly opinionated to the point where the events unfold along the lines of the author's opinion about the matter. I also found the book to be heavily slanted to the Left-wing way of thinking.

My son was required to read this book for his history studies at school, but I can't help but wonder if there is any good American history book that plainly tells the facts.