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Summary: Horrible Book for Beginners
Review: This book is absolutely horrible for beginners, or even for those upgrading to Visual Basic 6.0 from a previous version. It fails the Visual Basic programmer in a number of ways.The book fails to adequately describe the properties of Visual Basic's standard controls, giving only a cursory discussion of a handful of properties. It even goes so far as not discussing a property it expects the reader to utilize in the chapter exercises. Where sample code is provided, it often completely confuses the reader. Code is shown in the book from screen shots, with no attention paid to the fact that the code was often cut off on the far right due to the author's screen resolution. In addition, this book is poorly laid out. It expects the user to learn debugging in the second chapter of programming, before even touching on variables or decision-making processes. In at least one instance, the book actually provides incorrect syntax for a frequently used statement. The SELECT CASE statement is incorrectly taught as simply SELECT, causing any reader trying to duplicate Wilborn's code to get syntax errors until they figure out on their own the correct syntax for the statement. In short, I would not recommend this book for anyone, whether a beginning user or an advanced programmer. Its inconsistencies will confuse and frustrate the beginner, and will probably annoy the advanced programmer.
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Summary: Horrible Book for Beginners
Review: This book is absolutely horrible for beginners, or even for those upgrading to Visual Basic 6.0 from a previous version. It fails the Visual Basic programmer in a number of ways. The book fails to adequately describe the properties of Visual Basic's standard controls, giving only a cursory discussion of a handful of properties. It even goes so far as not discussing a property it expects the reader to utilize in the chapter exercises. Where sample code is provided, it often completely confuses the reader. Code is shown in the book from screen shots, with no attention paid to the fact that the code was often cut off on the far right due to the author's screen resolution. In addition, this book is poorly laid out. It expects the user to learn debugging in the second chapter of programming, before even touching on variables or decision-making processes. In at least one instance, the book actually provides incorrect syntax for a frequently used statement. The SELECT CASE statement is incorrectly taught as simply SELECT, causing any reader trying to duplicate Wilborn's code to get syntax errors until they figure out on their own the correct syntax for the statement. In short, I would not recommend this book for anyone, whether a beginning user or an advanced programmer. Its inconsistencies will confuse and frustrate the beginner, and will probably annoy the advanced programmer.
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Summary: Good book for beginners
Review: This is a good book for anyone who is just a beginner and wants to start learning Visual Basic or just a first programming language. It is not overly long or complicated and should not intimidate a beginning programmer like some books do. A CD-ROM containing Visual Basic is included so no extra software has to be purchased. There are also over 100 program examples included, with all their code and screen captures of the resulting forms. All new topics are fully covered in a concise manner. Everything is easy to follow. Every chapter contains many programming exercises for the user to try and a second CD-ROM is included containing the code for the programs in the book.
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Summary: Good book for beginners
Review: This is a good book for anyone who is just a beginner and wants to start learning Visual Basic or just a first programming language. It is not overly long or complicated and should not intimidate a beginning programmer like some books do. A CD-ROM containing Visual Basic is included so no extra software has to be purchased. There are also over 100 program examples included, with all their code and screen captures of the resulting forms. All new topics are fully covered in a concise manner. Everything is easy to follow. Every chapter contains many programming exercises for the user to try and a second CD-ROM is included containing the code for the programs in the book.
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