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Summary: Better than most others for syntax
Review: During the 80's I took some courses in PASCAL,COBOL etc so I know how to program,I just wanted to learn VB syntax and how to work in a Windows enviroment. Trying the self study route I wasted a great deal of money on those "Teach yourself in 24 Minutes All You Need to know" books. The most common problem I encountered was VB books were either too basic or too complicated!
I decided to enroll in a college course and this was the text book. If you are new to programming and can't write out a sequence of steps in plain english as to what you want the computer to do this is not the book for you!
This book moves along at a fast clip (as did the course I took)and I saw plenty of students fall by the wayside. They needed practice in writing the logic of a program and this book speeds through that essential part. You can get a good feel for VB up to an intermediate level but this is not an advanced book. Plenty of explanations and programming projects are given that will be interesting as long as you're a beginner to VB.
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Summary: If there had to be only one...
Review: I've always been interrested by the computer world and one day decided to teach myself programming. I picked up this book and started to read. At that moment, I didn't even know what a programming language was. I read it from cover to cover and didn't have the impression to learn something but suddenly I found myself programming small applications. I read other books then and today I'm a MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer). During my whole journey on the learning of programming, this one was the clearest book I've read. So, if you're a complete beginner in programming, get this book fast ! I would even recommend you to read it BEFORE moving to .NET books. If you already are a programmer coming from another language, it may not be the right choice.
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Summary: Very good book for the beginner
Review: Out of the 3 or 4 books on VB, this one is definately the best in how the author explains his material. Granted, other books had more information, but they were tailored for intermediate and advanced students. If you're a beginner, this book is definately the best I've seen to get into programming in VB. It's informative and also easy to read and understand.He also is one of only two authors (the other being the Forest Lin book) who gave detailed explinations on arrays. I bought the SAMS Teach Yourself in 21 days book and the QUE VB book by Spotts, and neither of them said much about the use of dynamic arrays, the use of Redim Preserve or much of anything else when it came to arrays, which I though was an important topic. For anyone who's beginning to learn programming in VB, I definately reccommend this book.
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Summary: Simply a great way to learn how to program
Review: Schneider teaches programming NOT visual basic...he does use Visual Basic to teach you how to program..so you learn great Visual Basic along the way. I recommend this book for any student or beginner programmer as their first book to buy. You will learn the right way to program from the start. Yes you will need to buy more books to go further in the future but a beginner will be occupied for 6 months with Schnieder. By the way, a lot of Australian Universities and Colleges are now using Schnieders books as a tool to teach students how to program. If you can already program and use VB, don't bother you will need something more in-depth...again its a fantastic beginners book.
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