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Summary: Visual Basic.NET How To Program Second Edition
Review: An excellent learning and reference tool! If you have a question, this book has the answer.
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Summary: An excellent VB.Net Intro textbook
Review: As a textbook, Visual Basic.NET How to Program 2nd Edition covers every general feature of VB.NET with very nice code demonstration. A reader with little or no programming experience can learn how to program with VB.Net by reading this book and practicing exercises from each chapter. Since VB.Net has included full OOP capability, a beginner can decide to go further with VB.Net or migrate to other languages without major hassle after going through the book.If you have working experience of previous VB (version 5 or 6) and have been using VB's OO features for more than a year, this book can help you to catch on the new language like it did for me. However, I do recommend that you start from chapter eight, nine, and ten. These three chapters introduce object-oriented features of VB.Net and do it beautifully. Once you understand the concept behind VB.Net, you should have no trouble to pick any remaining chapters to work through the examples and exercises. You can of course go back to the first seven chapters, even though they bore the hack out of me. Nevertheless, don't expect to write an enterprise application by reading this book, although you will build a solid foundation once you have done the book. All for all, this is a book to help a beginner toward to the intermediate level, an experienced VB programmer updated, a nice reference book at the same time. It is not a must buy, but you won't regret if you own one. One last thing to mention, although it is almost 1,400 printed pages thick, the book is 1/3 thinner than an ordinary computer book with the same amount of pages. Maybe this explains the price of it.
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Summary: COVERS 100% CONCEPT WITH PRACTICE
Review: first i want to say that this book is really for college courses,it's cover everything in any subject for example the arrays,it's cover it 100% imagine when you have a full chapter on arrays and a complete programs work with it :),it's great book and you will like it it's about 1300 pages also there are some chapters on the CD,but i can say if you haven't any prior experience with programming,just buy the Visual Basic.NET complete course,it's include the how to program book and CD explain every line of code,i like it so much.
after finishing the book then you are ready for the Guru of professional programming book (Andrew Troelsen)he is a great author and he know how to write for professional :),i like him so much and all his books are 5 star,
i hope that my review was helpful :)
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Summary: An Excellent VB.Net Primer
Review: Following the tradition of their earlier 'How To Program' books, this is a very comprehensive textbook which covers all the major areas of VB.Net. While I don't think any one book (even a 1500+ page one such as this) is going to cover every aspect of this huge subject, it does cover all of the major areas. Most importantly, it covers them in some detail and uses the traditional teaching methods of explanation, example, repetition and reinforcement to do so. What I have always liked abut the Deitel 'How To Program' range is that you are never left wondering how or why something has been done. Every step and just about every line of code is dissected and explained to you. There are many well-written programming books on the market, but too often you cannot find the clarification you desparately need on some vital point that you haven't quite grasped. With this book, the full answer is always there if you just take the time and effort to follow each step as it is described to you. One small word of caution: If you are the kind of reader who likes to be jollied along with little jokey lines and clever puns in the section headings, then you will not find them here. This book doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is - a detailed primer that will teach you almost everything you need to know about VB.Net programming. The summaries, reviews and - above all - the Index are comprehensive and clear. This is a painstaking work by good authors who have kept to traditional teaching methods to break down and explain a large and complex subject area. With its clear explanations in the body text and its easy to use Index and Reference tools, I have found it to be the book I usually reach for first when I need to check up on something. If you are new to VB.Net (and/or to programming in general) then you should seriously consider getting this book.
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Summary: The Deitels are deities. Book is worthy of worship.
Review: Having worked through the Deitels' C++ book two years back, I was delighted to find their VB.NET book. Training programmers is the business of the Deitel family. This book, like the others, is finely detailed. The book uses color to enhance the text and full-color on every screen shot. It's up-to-date with Beta 2 of VB.NET and the .NET IDE. The 1517 pages cover each topic from the ground up, but it is so well written (and beautifully printed) that it makes a great text for learning VB.NET even for programmers who are already expert in another language. Remember it's for learning, not for reference, and for those learning VB.NET from the ground up. Those with a good foundation in VB6 will want to look elsewhere unless they have the patience and desire to review fundamentals. The book is loaded with code samples, which are on an enclosed CD, and chapters are followed with long problem sets. Solutions to some of the problems can be found on the web site. ASP.NET, SQL Server, ADO.NET, and Web Services - the other fundamental technologies in the huge Microsoft .NET initiative - are all covered in enough detail to permit completing simple real business applications.
Spend the extra $30 if you are serious about programming. The Deitel books are used on many college campuses for programming courses. If you are moving into programming from another technical area, you will be well grounded and ready to apply for entry-level jobs in the exciting world of .NET after you complete this book.
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Summary: This wasn't the book for me
Review: Here is the deal, the authors of this book really went trough a lot of trouble to write this book. They covered a lot of stufs but I don't think that it was the book for me and for the following reasons may not be the book for you:
* One and a very important one for me, this book assumes that you got a computer in front of you when you are reading. I am a college student and like to bring my books to school for when I got some free time. There are a lot of pictures but none realeated to what a diolog would look like on the computer.
* two, This book is for those that don't know jack of visual basic 6, if you know even a bit then you will feel frustrated because it doesn't even teach you how to open a new window. Like you used to do using visual basic 6 with the show method. If you know object oriented programing you know that you need an instance of the form you want yo load on your current form to open it. You get to figure out how to open a window when you get to the chapter of multiple windows interface. Yes there is no freeking example that open a new window in the entire book. It also doesn't teach how to do an control array and in my opinion it covers the event hadeling very badly.
* Three, you need a lot of patient to read this book. I am used to read a book in three weeks or so maybe a month. There is no way you can read this book in less than four months, and you need to put a lot of effort because there are a lot of really long examples to go through.
* four, the book is useless as a reference for two reasons. the first one is that they go building on knowlege, so generally you need to read the previous section before you move to the next, there is a chess game interface that is developed through at least three whole champers. The second reason this book is useless as a reference and also really annoying to read is that it doenst show you in a couple of lines what is new but they mix it up in an example that is at least four pages long and then they tell you in line 320 what the program does is. so you got to be going back and forth from the paragraph that explains what is happening to the exaple that comes before.
you need serious comitment to study if you plan to get this book.
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Summary: Lucid VB
Review: I am a professional web designer and VB programmer. With the release of VB.Net and Visual Studio.Net, I was anxious to jump feet first into the new IDE and language. Having read the Deitel C++ book, I was very pleased to see the similarity in layout and ease of reading.
I would easily rate this book, and the Deitel series, as the best programming text books on the market. I have read many others and I am almost always disappointed in the monetary expenditure. These are easily as good, and better in some areas, as the Black Books from Coriolis. I would HIGHLY recommend this book to beginning VB programmers, as well as seasoned VB programmers looking to learn VB.Net.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I am a professional web designer. After reading this book I was very pleased to see the content, layout and ease of reading. I would rate this book as the best VB.Net programming book available inn the market. I have read many other books but this one is THE BEST and worth my money!!
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Summary: Excellent book for a beginner
Review: I am an experienced network administrator and the IS director of a large firm. I've never learned a programming language and felt that it was time that I did. I've tried several books but none of them worked for me. They all seemed disorganized and moved at a slow pace. All that's changed since I found Deitel's Visual Basic .NET How to Program. I'm making progress on a daily basis and every minute I spend with this book rewards me with a learning experience. I would highly recommend this book to anyone but especially to beginners like my self that want/need to learn outside the structured classroom.
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Summary: Thanks Deitel Inc!
Review: I am an experienced programmer from way back trying to figure out the .NET world. My list of competency includes over 30 applications including Excel VBA's and Authorware. I am in my 32nd year of teaching engineering. I purchase and read a considerable number of computer books including at least six VB.Net books. Each person has his own style. I find Deitel's book very useful and am grateful for their effort. I am intrigued by the either very positive or very negative reviews on their book. I think it speaks to the different ways people are wired to think. The book is a very example oriented learning resource that explains step-by-step every facet of well-sequenced programs. I found it most useful even though I already had a simple .NET application running on the web. The book explained very nicely the intricacies of object oriented programming that is somewhat troublesome for me. I am a very verb oriented programmer whereas .NET is a noun oriented language. That orientation may well divide the reviewers of this book. The visual layout of the book is very appealing and most likely the reason for the somewhat higher cost. However, it is well worth it. For the record, I do not know nor have I any connection with the authors other than a reader of their wonderful book.
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