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Summary: Superb
Review: If you are anything like me, you buy four or five books in the hope that one will provide the information you need. Typically three out of five are not much use. This one is concise, to the point, covers the major stuff and is ideal for beginners. Real high speed learning and productivity.
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Summary: A great reference, poor teaching tool
Review: Of all the reviews, no one has learned that this is not a tutorial book. The code and frankly everything in this book is spread out to the point that its waste to learn from;however, with a 21 day book this book is invaluable, making the easy-cheesy 3 week books a little less confusing. This book should be and only used to show programming context and what each function is used for, not why or how it works. This book goes into ActiveX for a good 20 or so tips(a lot for 1 specific topic) and shows context and how to use the controls. NOT WHY THEY WORK!
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Summary: Presents Visual Basic topics in bite-sized amounts
Review: Overall it is a good book. At least 1/2 of the topics can be found in Microsoft documentation. But the presentation of each topic is very clear. Also, there is some interesting advanced topics. They always provide source code to illustrate their point. This is an advantage to a beginning VB programmer. I've always liked their "1001 Tips" books as a source for quick source code examples. John Dunbar. www.helptalk.com - VB moderated support. www.dunbarco.com - Custom Programming for Windows and the Internet
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Summary: cover to cover, as a referance
Review: The authors of this book are very honest to light on and/or cover every topic you need or you search for, soon or later whatever your level in visual basic
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Summary: A Beginner's Dream
Review: The first book on the language that you should get? Maybe. But if you're looking for advanced and "pushing the envelope" stuff, you're better off somewhere else. Every topic starts off great, but falls short when it comes to examples. They show the proper format for each line of code, but no real-world examples. It's like if they couldn't write some code themselves and only copied what the Help file already teaches you. The CD is useless. There are many options out there and this one is around the middle of my list.
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Summary: A Beginner's Dream
Review: The first book on the language that you should get? Maybe. But if you're looking for advanced and "pushing the envelope" stuff, you're better off somewhere else. Every topic starts off great, but falls short when it comes to examples. They show the proper format for each line of code, but no real-world examples. It's like if they couldn't write some code themselves and only copied what the Help file already teaches you. The CD is useless. There are many options out there and this one is around the middle of my list.
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Summary: cover to cover, as a referance
Review: This book is both a great introduction to VB for newbies and a great reference for VB gunslingers like myself.For the rookie, it's a step-by-step introduction to VB. Each "tip" is a mini-lesson, and later lessons build on earlier ones. The writing is clean and easy to understand, and the code examples are easy to follow. For the veteran, it's a fantastic reference ("What's the syntax for declaring an RDO recordset again?"). The index makes it very easy to find the information you are looking for, and the sequential nature of the lessons ensures that the item you are searching for will be in the midst of a larger discussion of the general topic. This book is large; not just thick, but actually big. This is because the pages are printed in a large, easy-to-read font. Well done! I only wish that Jamsa would do a "1,001 ASP Programmer's Tips".
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Summary: Great For Beginners and Intermediate
Review: This book is both a great introduction to VB for newbies and a great reference for VB gunslingers like myself. For the rookie, it's a step-by-step introduction to VB. Each "tip" is a mini-lesson, and later lessons build on earlier ones. The writing is clean and easy to understand, and the code examples are easy to follow. For the veteran, it's a fantastic reference ("What's the syntax for declaring an RDO recordset again?"). The index makes it very easy to find the information you are looking for, and the sequential nature of the lessons ensures that the item you are searching for will be in the midst of a larger discussion of the general topic. This book is large; not just thick, but actually big. This is because the pages are printed in a large, easy-to-read font. Well done! I only wish that Jamsa would do a "1,001 ASP Programmer's Tips".
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Summary: Great For Beginners and Intermediate
Review: This book is both a great introduction to VB for newbies and a great reference for VB gunslingers like myself. For the rookie, it's a step-by-step introduction to VB. Each "tip" is a mini-lesson, and later lessons build on earlier ones. The writing is clean and easy to understand, and the code examples are easy to follow. For the veteran, it's a fantastic reference ("What's the syntax for declaring an RDO recordset again?"). The index makes it very easy to find the information you are looking for, and the sequential nature of the lessons ensures that the item you are searching for will be in the midst of a larger discussion of the general topic. This book is large; not just thick, but actually big. This is because the pages are printed in a large, easy-to-read font. Well done! I only wish that Jamsa would do a "1,001 ASP Programmer's Tips".
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Summary: Title is misleading - content is repetitious.
Review: This is not a tips and tricks book - it is an introductory VB programming book. Because it's broken down into 1001 small bits, the same information is often repeated in many places. It also feels like they had to stretch to get to the magic number of 1001.
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