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Summary: 5 stars because I can not give 6.
Review: A good book for the beginner. I can read in less than 5 days. It covers perfectly most of the basic visual controls: button, dialog, menu, combo list, text box, timer, data control, status bar, MDI, SDI, set up control, environment ... The codes in the examples are short and simple, but they are good enough for your learning. If you have experience with other programming languages in a less friendly environment like unix, then this book is a quick way to catch the main idea of this language by learning the GUI quick.
It mentions no OOP, ADO and has no cdrom, you should look in other books. In fact, this book covers all the main concepts that you will learn in the introduction course of vb at the college, except it will take you 15 weeks and you can do a little more coding. If you have some programming experience and need a quick learn the controls of vb, this is the book for you. You will not regret for < [money]. Other books will be the next. This book will not make you sick by the size and lengthy words. I wish I can find some similar for visual c++. Thank for any hint!
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Summary: Gosh, darn if this little book
Review: Gosh, darn if this little book isn't the best Visual Basic book I've ever seen. Really useful. I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: Visual Basic for Windows
Review: I found this book extremely helpful in getting started with Visual basic. The step by step approach and clear colour illustrations made it easy to read. The book has a very low price tag making it good value for money. This is the best I have found to date.
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Summary: Visual Basic 6: Visual QuickStart Guide
Review: I found this book to be extremely helpful as a novice in the world of Visual Basic. Mr Davis's use of graphics took a great deal of the guess work away and demonstrated what the forms and properties should look like.This is a great book for beginners. His explanations are clear and concise. The source code downloads were excellent and allowed the user to compare their projects and judge your progress. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Visual Basic.
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Summary: Visual Basic 6: Visual QuickStart Guide
Review: I found this book to be extremely helpful as a novice in the world of Visual Basic. Mr Davis's use of graphics took a great deal of the guess work away and demonstrated what the forms and properties should look like. This is a great book for beginners. His explanations are clear and concise. The source code downloads were excellent and allowed the user to compare their projects and judge your progress. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Visual Basic.
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Summary: A Great Start to Visual Basic 6.0
Review: I have started to explore how to create my own pc/mac video games. The first thing I needed, and it was tough becuase I'm 12, was a good programming language that I could understand and that some of my friends could understand. I chose Visual Basic (VB). Then I needed a good book that to teach me the language. My only problem with learning programming languages is the vocabulary the books use. As I said, I'm only 12. And I chose Visual Basic 6: Visual QuickStart Guide. This book not only teaches the basics, but it goes through the exact steps so I could clearly understand it. It comes with lots of screen shots of Visual Basic 6 (the program/compiler). And now I can see how easy it is to work with VB 6. I soon hope to make an interesting game with loads of cool sprites (graphics)!
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Summary: A Jewell of a Book
Review: I needed to get a jump-start on Visual Basic. I bought several books about Visual Basic. Some of these are most forgettable. This book however takes you by the hand and walks you through the basics. A well conceived book. I know how to program. However Object-Oriented programming is new to me. For those making the transition, this should be Volume I.
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Summary: Only 290 pages!! (-;
Review: I was looking for a VB6 book. There must be a gazillion of them out there; each containing a googolzillion pages. I happened upon this little jem. Only 290 pages. And, it contains pictures. What a nice book. Very nice.
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Summary: I wrote this book to teach people to program.
Review: I wrote this book to help people to learn to program. I believe that Visual Basic is the ideal teaching language. I also think that programming is best learned by DOING...so this book starts out with step-by-step guides that let you produce programs that do things. No assumption is made that you know anything about programming. In addition to this book, all you need is the Learning Edition of Visual Basic, which is available inexpensively. In addition to those who want to learn to program, this book is intended as a task-based reference for beginning to intermediate readers. A four-color Visual Basic reference card is included with the book. The source code developed in the book is available for download at the companion web site for the book, though I'd encourage you to enter the code yourself in the interests of learning.
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Summary: All I can say is ..."Grab it"! . This book is that good!
Review: I've bought other VB books that are more detailed, but they are often tedious for beginners. This book perfectly balances ease of use with enough explanations for you to understand what you are doing as you learn by hands on example. The best way to learn VB is by doing it hands on. This book has tons of exercises so youre not just learning the fundamentals of VB programming, but you are seeing it all in action, building small mini-programs as you go along. Very easy to use, well explained, great graphics on almost every psge. If you desire to really be a master programmer, of course you will need a more detailed reference book afterward, and lots of hands on practicing to keep your skills sharp. But there are many books out there for that after youre done with this one. By the time you finish this book it will give you a real sense of what it feels like to construct programs in Visual Basic, and you'll be ready to take your learnig experience to the next level. If I could give this book 6 stars, I would. Good luck to you all
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