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Summary: Decent book
Review: The Amazon review up top says that this is a good book if you have no VB experience. I think it would be better to say that this is a good book if you have no programming experience whatsoever. If you have any idea of what OOP is all about then you will probably find the first 5 chapters of this 18 chapter book to be extremely remedial. Take the book title to heart. When they say "Beginning VB6" they mean lowest common denominator beginning. Take my advice: If you know basic programming principles and you have some experiece coding (even if its just JavaScript) then go for something more advanced.In all fairness I should point out that I'm only half-way through the book.
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Summary: Good book! Worth to invest
Review: I have 5 VB book and this is the best. Peter has make the book interesting enough. It is like a real person present the live material to you instead of word. However, type error is one of the concern. e.g P.135 and 136. Should the Ucase has $ at the end? one say yes and the other page is no. I try to download the code from http://www.wrox.com 9:30pm today from the web but it seems the sever doesn't work. Hopefully, the server back online again so I can get the code.
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Summary: Highly recommend this
Review: I had a basic understanding of programming with some experience with VBA and VBScripting. Mr. Wright's book is informative, interesting to read, full of good clear examples and most importantly the code is correct. The book does not repeat the information found in the help files, not does it get bogged down in some complicated example. Mr. Wright does a good job of isolating the important imformation in each section and provide executable code to demonstrate the information. Anyone interested in teaching themselves VB6 and also learning sound programming practices should buy this book and read it like a novel (from cover to cover). Probably not the best reference book available for an experienced programmer.
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Summary: Nice beginner text but very poor on advanced topics
Review: This is probably the best book to start with for a complete newcomer to VB or programming. I've been using the previous version of this book to teach beginner-VB classes for the last year and intend to use this one. However, the coverage of advanced topics ranges from sketchy to terrible and a number of language features are ignored completely. You definitely need to pick up a more serious VB book after reading this one (VB6 from the ground up by Gary Cornell is the one I'd recommend) and if you're a programmer, skip this one entirely.
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Summary: good for beginners
Review: I am only into the first few chapters and already I like this book. The concepts are clearly explained and I am actually able to follow the examples and understand what is going on. I definitely recommend this book to other beginners.
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Summary: A good intro. but a bit short on explanations
Review: I well into my 2nd quarter of VB 6 at school and had used this book before and during my first term. I have 5 VB texts and this one is still the best for learning the basics. However, a more thorough explanation of arrays, parameters, events and methods is needed. In reality, the scope of VB 6 is such that only long term exposure to actual programming and/or a structured learning environment is required for a true understanding of this powerful tool. A text book can only augment the learning process. By the way, I made the mistake of buying a book from Buybooks.com because it was $2 cheaper than Amazon and after a month I'm still waiting for the book. Stick with Amazon.com, I've had nothing but problems with other online book sellers.
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Summary: You can do better.
Review: I have purchased a text with each version of VB starting with VB3 and this is clearly the worst. There is a fundamental flaw in the way topics are explained. Each chapter begins well with a good general description of the topic. In the later chapters this is followed by a big program that you type in with no explanation. After you're done, a terse explanation of what you did is provided. What is missing is a explanation of the VB tools (methods, properties, events) for each chapter's topic that are available to you and an explanation of how to use them. You may be able to follow the explanation for the program but YOU ONLY LEARN TO MIME THE AUTHOR'S PROGRAM, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED TO CREATE YOUR OWN, NOR ARE YOU GIVEN THE TOOLS TO DO SO. Chapter 16, "Using DLLs and the Windows API" is exceptionally poor. After the general description, the authors offers a large program that would better fit in the chapter on Classes. It contains only one API call. The student would not have a clue to some useful API calls, even routine ones like starting a program in the background or seeing if a program is running. Some parts of the book jump from VB6 back to VB5. It appears in the rush to get the first VB6 book out, some sections were not updated. This is trivial but Wrox needs to change their covers. Pictures of the author on the front, back, and binding are a bit much. White space would be an improvement.
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Summary: Poor Syntax examples, Jumps subjects
Review: We are present computer programmer students using this book. It is hard to follow and there is not enough information on data manipulation, and where to put the code. Syntax examples are lacking, unclear as to where modules belong, poor explanations.
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Summary: Great Book to start of with
Review: If you haven't done any vb6 programming before, this is the book to start of with. This book has great explanations of concepts and worthwhile excercises to pratice on. The three case studies at the end were also helpfull, as it allows you to put together what you've learnt in a bigger project.
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Summary: Very good for beginners - typos are annoying
Review: This book has been a great tool for learning the essentials of basic VB programming. The exercises within the chapter are great. The only complaint I have with the book is the number of typos and grammatical errors - as many as 4 per page sometimes. The editors did not do a very good job of proofing this book before it hit the stands. However, I would still recommend it to anyone. It is definitely worth the money!
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