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Summary: Got programming experience? This ties up all the loose ends.
Review: I am a student in information systems at a major university. I do tutoring (for Visual Basic .NET students). While sitting in the professor's office whom I am tutoring for, I often look through her (gigantic) collection of ~1000 Information Technology (IT) books. I have been programming ASP for ~5 years, and started ASP.NET ~6 months ago. Making the leap from VB Script (advanced as I was) to Visual Basic .NET full blown object oriented programming was a big step. This book made that step complete. After going through dozens of books on the subject (visual basic .net, C#, asp.net, etc) this book starts with the most necessary things you need to know. It is really designed for those it says; "advanced". If you have no prior programming experience, then look elsewhere. But this book will throw you right into the best features of Visual Basic .NET, especially those features you might not pick up on at first when you are switching from another language.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I've been programming webforms in VB.NET for a couple of months now and I've read a number of books on the subject. This book is excellent if you have some programming experience preferably object oriented languages. Sure it blazes thru some of the key OOP concepts but if you want to learn that stuff get a different book. What this book did for me was that it simply gave me different views on (for instance) concurrency control, data access, etc. There were a bunch of good reusable code snippets as well. Obviously it is a book intended for students although I found it very useful for both winform programming as well as webform programming. I just wish it had even more pages! Now go get it!
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Summary: Diffucult Read
Review: This book does not flow or build your knowledge in an orderly fashion. You are left to figure things out. Which defeats the purpose of a book. This is a very hard to read book as far as programming books go. The authors could have spent more time "dividing and concurring" the subject matter than just providing the information in chunks for you to workout. I would prefer that my teacher chose a different book. Sincerely.
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Summary: Diffucult Read
Review: This book has its pearls here and there but it is definitely NOT worth the price. I wouldn't pay $25 for it.
The examples given are really worthless because all they basically do is drag and drop components and controls (almost anybody can figure that out). I would like to see more code, especially in the Database section. I mean the book is OK if you only paid $20 to $30. (Are they really selling the 60-day trial version of VS.NET?)
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Summary: Designer Dependent
Review: This book has its pearls here and there but it is definitely NOT worth the price. I wouldn't pay $25 for it.
The examples given are really worthless because all they basically do is drag and drop components and controls (almost anybody can figure that out). I would like to see more code, especially in the Database section. I mean the book is OK if you only paid $20 to $30. (Are they really selling the 60-day trial version of VS.NET?)
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Summary: In-line Writing Style
Review: This is the worst programming textbook I have yet seen. It requires the student to read each chapter from start to finish, because one cannot just go to a subject of interest and learn it. The writing style is completely in-line. I found I had to re-read sections many times to ascertain what the authors were trying to say, and the code examples were not self-contained. While I am not a programmer by training, I have taken a course in Java and many other courses. This book also focused too much on databases to my taste, but others may find that emphasis useful. Even the teacher who selected it said he made a mistake.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: To any professors or students who plan on using this book please be warned. This is the absolute worst textbook I have ever used. Most OOP terminology is skimmed over and there is no walkthrough for the code examples that many students need. Many times during the use of this book I went to look for a reason or to gain an understanding as to why the authors did something. I rarely found it. The first two chapters are basically a hack job. The database section is also worthless. I rarely write reviews but if your professor recommends this book you might want to find a better teacher because they obviously have not looked at this text. Good luck.
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