I usually like the Quickstart guides and I waited a long time for this book. I'm teaching an introductory computer programming course this semester using REALbasic and I delayed making a textbook choice because this book was supposed to ready in time. The "Definitive Guide" is available, but maybe a little too heavy, so I kept hoping this would be ready and resemble most of the Quickstart guides - short examples that illustrate one point. I wondered why it was twice as long as most Quickstart Guides. Now I know why - it starts with one GIGANTIC example of creating an HTML editor. Not something I'm interested in creating and not something that I can ask my high school students to sit down and do in one session. There are good parts in the book, but they start after that awful HTML editor section. We chose the "Definitive Guide" which is broken into manageable chapters.