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Summary: One of the Best Visual Basic Book on the Market
Review: I recommend this book for students who are learning Visual Basic for the first time. Each chapter has excellent technical informaion, lots of examples, and well thought out methology for learning Visual Basic. I feel the book gives the student a number of valuable concepts: understanding of the vb controls, usability of objects in an application, and understand of how to integrate an Visual Basic Application with an database. I recommend "Beginning Visual Basic" to all of my College Students.
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Summary: Better title: I want to quit programming for stand-up comedy
Review: ... or possibly "to be a dj at a rock-n-roll radio station."If you're a beginner, you'll be confused by the casual explanations, fuzzy definitions, unclear intent, not to mention language that is intended for pre-schoolers, not adults. And you'll relish spending just as much time debugging the examples and test-cases as you will building and understanding them. I suppose that's also a way to learn. Save your time and spend your money on a better book. I truly believe Amazon should create a five-negative-stars rating for this one.
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Summary: Frustrating and Disappointing
Review: Wrox Press seems to be thriving. If this book is representative of others they publish, I'm a little astonished at their success. From a strictly editorial point of view, the book is terrible. Layout does not take the reader into account, ignoring current trends in information design. For instance, sometimes code is illustrated above its explanation, sometimes below. Also, inconsistent text formatting and poor copy editing add to the reader's frustration and confusion. Clearly Mr. Wright knows his subject, however, the impression I'm left with is that Wrox doesn't spend a lot of time refining the text so to benefit the reader. Three examples of this: (1) Mr. Wright's habit of introducing concepts and topics, and then saying he'll explain them later; (2) Mr. Wright's constant failure to define what he's talking about. (When he first introduces the Mod operator, for instance, he fails to define the term (MODerate? MODernize? MODify?) and then goes on to suggest that the reader might want to read up on it -- without referencing to where the reader should turn; (3) the "How It Works" sections are not sufficiently detailed in their overview of their review of the code. That is to say, he doesn't really deconstruct the code line by line and explain how it works. Additionally, his approach doesn't provide sufficient conceptual background information. Rather he prefers you just reproduce the examples and extrapolate how they can be used in a broader or different context. Popular as these books are they cannot hold a candle to O'Reilly's well-designed, thoroughly edited, and informative books. Too bad they don't have a primer for the uninitiated VB 6 developer.
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Summary: If you've never progammed before, this book may help
Review: otherwise, you need another book. I am extremely disapointed in this book, especially the TERRIBLE index. I need a book I can not only read, but also reference when I am coding and asking myself the "Can I...?" questions. Please, do yourself a favor, and buy something else.
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Summary: If you're slow on the uptake this book's for you!
Review: I bought this book based on some of the rave reviews, and was disappointed. IMO he does a poor job of explaining how the different pieces fit in, and uses very little logic in his explanations, prefering instead to focus on a lot of learning by doing. The book ought to be entitled "Getting acquainted with some VB basics."
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Summary: It is THE book for VB
Review: I bought this book three weeks back and there hasn't been a day I didnt read it. It's so explanative and at the same time it is concise. I can say no more except that buying this book has been one of the best steps I have ever taken in my whole life.
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Summary: Excellent Starting Point!
Review: When you need to pick up VB6 in a hurry, this is an excellent source. Other books will take you deeper into specific issues, but this is the place to get a grasp on the whole picture and provides what you need to get a general understanding.
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Summary: Who said you can't do it? -The period man-
Review: Who said you can't be a visual basic programmer because you are slow? He or she who told you that is a liar. Just think about me. I was able to do it, and do it right. If I can be one, anybody in the Universe can be a Visual Basic Programmer. This book really helps you start programming right away in the easiest way. Just get this book period.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to VB, and a great teacher
Review: After giving up on one of the SAMS 21 day wonder books, I picked this up on the recommendation of several subscribers to a VB e-mail list. I haven't been disappointed and I'm very pleasantly pleased. The book is generally well written (obviously by an Englishman, not that there's anything wrong with that, ahem), is well-organized, and has a minimum of typos and errors (nobody's perfect, but this is closer than a lot of others). The examples are well-chosen, and the exercises at the end of each chapter do help stretch the old brain-wrinkles. Highly recommended if you want a quick start with VB6.
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Summary: Loads of Information
Review: This is the perfect book for the beginner to intermediate VB programmer. The author touches many subjects with just the right amount of detail. A great book to get you hooked to Visual Basic programming.
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