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Summary: Confusing with Many Mistakes
Review: I recently used this book for a class and we found that the book was not clearly written. Examples tended to be quite different from the end of chapter exercises. I found that you constantly needed to turn to outside resources or use trial and error to achieve your goal. The book also does not use the most efficient methods of doing the programs. Disappointed that errors were not corrected before publication.
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Summary: Confusing with Many Mistakes
Review: I recently used this book for a class and we found that the book was not clearly written. Examples tended to be quite different from the end of chapter exercises. I found that you constantly needed to turn to outside resources or use trial and error to achieve your goal. The book also does not use the most efficient methods of doing the programs. Disappointed that errors were not corrected before publication.
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Summary: It is all about standards!
Review: I teach VB in a local Community College and I just love this book. Why? For one thing the book conforms to industry standard naming conventions. This is important and is missing in all of the other texts I have considered. You learn good programming from good programming examples and this text is full of them. Each chapter has a step by step learning within the chapter and a hands-on-example at the end of the chapter. There are lots of projects to choose from at the end of the chapter so if you can make the assignment simple or more advanced to fit your needs. I think students who actually do the in-chapter step-by-steps can learn the material on their own if they happen to miss my great class;)
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Summary: It is all about standards!
Review: I teach VB in a local Community College and I just love this book. Why? For one thing the book conforms to industry standard naming conventions. This is important and is missing in all of the other texts I have considered. You learn good programming from good programming examples and this text is full of them. Each chapter has a step by step learning within the chapter and a hands-on-example at the end of the chapter. There are lots of projects to choose from at the end of the chapter so if you can make the assignment simple or more advanced to fit your needs. I think students who actually do the in-chapter step-by-steps can learn the material on their own if they happen to miss my great class;)
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Summary: The best Visual Basic book
Review: I used to programming in Cobol and I did not know to programming in Visual Basic when I read this book help me a lot. Actually I'm coding in Visual Basic and all my foundation is from this book. However, I believe it is the best books for beginner and low advanced programmer. All the code are easy and simple to understand.
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Summary: Confusing Layout makes this frustrating for a beginner
Review: I'm no programming genius so you readers can take this with a grain of salt. I am taking a VB class and this is the textbook. My instructor will explain something and it is easy to follow. I try to follow the explanation in the book and I get confused. For the absolute beginner like myself, I believe there needs to be a better structure to the contents. It almost seems like little steps have been left out and the book jumps to coding examples without entirely explaining the process. I would like to have seen some basic (no pun intended) explanations that (for example) take tool bar functions one at a time, like the text box, and then tell you how to create it and code all the various functions you will typically use. The book lacks a clear reference area that tells the ins and outs of text boxes (or whatever). Instead the book will mention the text box and gradually introduce you to the functions. That's fine, but when I'm trying to implement a specific function and don't remember how to do it, finding the specific information in this book will make you crazy because it's all spread out.
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Summary: The best Visual Basic book written
Review: Programming in Visual Basic 6.0 is by far the best book for the beginning VB programmer. I still use the book today for quick reference. I tried other books and they just don't come close to this one. Concepts are clearly explained and there are plenty of examples in the book to practice your VB skills. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: The best Visual Basic book written
Review: Programming in Visual Basic 6.0 is by far the best book for the beginning VB programmer. I still use the book today for quick reference. I tried other books and they just don't come close to this one. Concepts are clearly explained and there are plenty of examples in the book to practice your VB skills. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Extremely helpful for all Visual Basic programmers
Review: This book contains all the essentials for Visual Basic. The examples are extremely helpful and easy to understand. A must have for all Visual Basic programmers.
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Summary: A great book for BEGINNING programmers...
Review: This book seems to get poor reviews for some reason. This book is a great value because of its price and easy to use format. It is true that this book seems to be geared for BEGINNERS, but Visual Basic is a pretty BEGINNER style of programming. If you have programming experience, you may want to try more challenging books. If you are new to Visual Basic or programming altogether, this book is for you. It even comes with a CD which gives you a VISUAL BASIC 6.0 program to use! Overall the value is super. How many computer text books with the program included can you find for this reasonable of a price. So as others may find this book to "simple," I like the overall value, easy readability, and format of this book.
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