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Summary: LOTS of Examples
Review: I was looking for a book that had lots of examples on the use of classes in VB. I teach beginning VB6 and thought that I needed a fresh approach. This book is exactly what I wanted. It seems to closely match the MS certification subject matter with lots of examples in concise format. Finally after 16 books and several classes this book really looks good.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I was looking for a Visual Basic book for over a month before I finally chose the Deitel & Deitel book. I am VERY pleased with the ease of use, thoroughness, and detail with which it is written. Since then I've begun attending programming classes and the school uses Deitel & Deitel books for their C++, Visual Basic and Java Classes (and maybe even more). Like the Visual Basic book, I am very impressed with these, as well. ...and I don't usually get passionate about text books.
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Summary: Despite what everyone else says, Excellent book!
Review: I can't understand why there are so many bad reviews of this book. I have read a few books about Visual Basic, and this is one of the best for beginners. It is clear and consise, and there are a lot of excellent programming examples. The Deitel books in general are great. Like I said, I don't understand why so many people hated this book. Maybe they just don't get programming...
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Summary: Thanks for the warning
Review: After reading reviews I checked it out and many are correct. This book is not for one trying to learn VB. It is hard to read, confusing, not worth the money. DON'T BUY IT!
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Summary: A Visual Basic book of Frustration
Review: Trying to Learn How to Progam with little experience, I was excited to purchase this book. After, reading Chp 1 and Chp 2, I am so mad at this text book, I could scream. If the book contained working exercise problems, one might be able to work through and learn from them. I guess the only way to get the working answers, you must purchase it through an authorized Prentice Hall represenative. The examples are very difficult. I am very disgusted with this book. In fact, it really made me to re-think Visual Basic. Visual Basic authors need to think about really teaching Visual basic, and stop showing the world, Hey look how great I can program. This book is written for the MIT students of the world, however their is a 95% of us who do not fall into this cat. Very unhappy with this book. Awful!
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Summary: Wish I could give this book MINUS five stars!
Review: This is the worst programming book I've ever seen. Examples: the authors actually explain the difference between hardware and software, how to open a file folder in Windows, how to save a file, and other elementary processes that anyone who has used a windows computer for longer than 20 minutes knows. However, when it comes to explaining the Visual Basic programming environment, they don't bother to explain how to access the Forms Layout window they are referring to, although it isn't obvious. (It's under the View menu.) At the end of Chp 2, after showing you ONLY how to add a label to a form, their exercise consists of building the GUI for a calculator! Furthermore, since they don't and WILL NOT provide answers, there is absolutely NO WAY for you to learn how to complete the exercise!They waste time and space telling you what any idiot would already know, then fail to provide you with the information you bought the book for: how to program in Visual Basic. Buy something else - ANYTHING else!
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Summary: A poor textbook, and abominable reference.
Review: I have been taking a VB course at a community college with VB-How To Program as the textbook. It has proved very unhelpful in terms of demonstrating how to put together even the simplest VB programs using built in functions and components. The authors do a decent job describing the algorithms used to solve the various problems, but never present information on the key built-in functions and GUI components that are what makes VB a RAD development tool. I am constantly frustrated when attempting to look up a function or component that I need to know how to use to implement a program example. The index is very poor, and the order in which topics are presented in the book is completely unrelated to the order in which you actually need to know them to program in VB. I cannot recommend this book and hope my Community College switches to another one in the interests of future students.
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Summary: Not for Novice
Review: I'm not new to programming and this book was my first Visual Basic book as the contents looked impressive. The book was confusing and never got me started with Visual Basic. I had to buy Teachyourself and Complete Reference series to get started. As on today the book lies in my shelf for about an year, i don't feel like reading it anymore.
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Summary: Not for low level beginners
Review: I thought the book was consfusing when I first browsed it. Now a few months later, I know VB pretty well. This book is really an intermediate book. It will KILL beginners that have little programming experience. I think the step by step book from MS is a good starter book, and this can follow up from there.
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Summary: Visual Basic 6 - How to Program
Review: This is the most confusing textbook I have ever encoutered. Unfortunately, most community colleges have been mislead into believe that a novice could actually learn from this book. Maybe it is time for our colleges to forget the kick-backs and provide students with quality textbooks.
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