Joe Sutphin's new book

Anyone know if this book is any good:

AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference
by Joe Sutphin

Perion

 

I'd be more interested in hearing to what extent it is relevant to
AutoCAD 2005 programming. Are there any major changes in the API between
the two releases?

 

Hi,

It's twice as thick as the old one and as such it's going to take me much
longer to fully access it. However, the reason that I bought it is my
belief in Joe as a "professional quality" writer and the value I got from
the first edition.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

 

Is it just an object reference or their good "How To"s and sample code?

Perion

 

As a newbie, I found this book not as helpful as I hoped.. Half the book is
indexes of the object model (Im sure very important), but not many practical
examples to learn from. remember Im a newbie trying to learn not only
AutoCAD VBA, but VBA as well

Just my opinion,

 

go to the library and get either VBA for Dumbies or the Idiot's Guide to
VBA. Both are decent beginner material - they teach you syntax, etc., then
you can progress into Joe's book.

 

Hi,

The first edition's major strength is as a reference for those whose know
what they are doing.

In the new book there is over 200k of sample code - enough to occupy you for
more time than you will make available.

When I started to learn AutoCAD VBA programming I found Andrew Roe's "Using
Visual Basic with AutoCAD" book much easier to read and follow. I rarely
open Andrew's book these days, but refer to Joe's first book and am just
starting into the second edition.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

 

I haven't read any other book of him, but I have read 300 pages of this book...

I'm an professional Excel & Word VBA programmer so I now VBA and I wanted have just started with AutoCad VBA, wanted a quick guide how to get started...

What i don't like about the book is that "all" the code examples are "almost the same". Sometimes only the object has changed but the rest is the same.
He could have saved alot of trees (pages) to write the syntax of everything and then only have an example on some objects. It's a bit annoying to examine the code just to think, oh.. "this was on the last page too"... "haven't I seen this code already"...

Anyways, the last reference part (last 300 pages) might be good to have in the future where all the AutoCad objects are explained.

Conclusion: I have read better books on programming and I could probobly have saved some money researching on the net and downloading the source code for the book. (without reading it) But if you need the object reference, then it might be a good buy.