As a five year veteran in PeopleSoft development and a reviewer to this book I find this book helpful for beginners that need to pick up the skills as well others who need to pick a few pointers on how to improve the skills they have already developed. A very well written book and highly recommended. The scope of coverage is complete. It is understandable to someone with little experience while briskly moving from one topic to the next, with good examples. The material is organized well - simple to complex SQR, then putting SQR's online into Peoplesoft, then the nitty gritty of working with history and interfaces with Peoplesoft.
Glossaries are at the end.
It's not too long, not too short. The author is stimulating, not belabored with theory, yet topics are thorough and more than one example is used. Look for a great style - doing something slightly wrong, and then the author pointing it out and repeating the answer with the correct solution. Printing summaries at the end of each chapter is good. Illustrating points with call-out boxes overimposed onto actual programming code is also a great technique.