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Rating: Summary: Inadequate Review: Do not let the fact that the book comes with a CD convince you to buy it. Because I did and it turns out that the Cd was for a Dvd Rom and it has a 60 day trial, of course I did not find that out until I opened the book and I can not return it and my computer only has a Cd Rom. I refuse to spend extra money for a Dvd Rom just for this book of instructions that is formatted for a baby's comprehension with a 60 day trial 'Dvd'. And after I brought this book my school book store received the same books but with the full version of vb.net, Why didn't they package it like that in the first place?! hmmm maybe to rip people off first, who really knows for sure. Now I just take good notes and use the school lab and the teacher provides sites to go to for more info. I don't even use the book, its just sitting there taking up space and its money down the drain. Don't buy this book. I repeat do not buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't buy the book. Don't be fooled!!! Like me.
Rating: Summary: Great book for beginners!! Review: I am taking VB.NET for the first time and don't have any previous programming experience. I find this book GREAT. It provides step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow and understand. Applications used in this book are wonderful and I even use one for my daughter's Math practice!
This book is best when used not as a reference by the experienced programmer, but as a guide by beginner. Highly recommend this book if you are a beginner. :-)
Rating: Summary: Forewarned is forearmed... Review: I haven't actually read the book, though the previous edition on VB6 was great. But there are a couple of important things you should know about this edition. While the VB6 edition came with the Learner's Edition of VB6, this one comes with a 60-day trial edition of VB .NET; after 60 days it'll be no use to you anymore. Furthermore, this trial version (like the full version of VB .NET) will only run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.Diane Zak's VB6 book was excellent and full of lucid explanations and plenty of examples and exercises; I would imagine this book is the same. But if you're buying it partially for the software it contains, consider the limitations before you place that order.
Rating: Summary: Why Buy??? Review: If you are like me and got stuck buying this book for a programming class at school, you probably have a number of welts on your forehead from how often you fell asleep while reading only to have banged your head against a wall or some other dangerous object that caught your face as you drifted into slumberland. Hey, some teachers really should think before forcing students to buy books like this. Times are hard folks and money should be spent properly. Let's face it... the average student taking a computer class falls into one of two groups: The first group has never seen the inside of a computer, would never know a memory chip if it slapped them in the face, thinks Microsoft Works is the same as Microsoft Office, and for some reason gets mad at a computer manufacturer when there dinosaur, 233 MGHz processor, 32 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive (with 1.5 GB already clogged by multiple AOL installs) will not install their bootlegged copy of Windows XP. The second group loves to sit at a computer for hours trying to make a program work instead of using a working program. This group is not satisfied with being told that a textbox is an object, but instead wants to understand what an object is and fully explore all facets of the object. For this group, being given a fish or a fishing pole is just not enough... instead, making their own fishing pole is what this group wants. For those students that fall into the first group, this book is for you. It is like training wheels on a bicycle. For the student in the second group, curse the day you signed up for class with that teacher and make a trip to a good bookstore and buy a book that boldly goes where no one in group one has gone before.
Rating: Summary: Boring, poor reference Review: Like every book I use, or read, I don't judge it by the cover, but content speaks loudly. While one reviewer puts users in extremes, I am at niether. I am no novice, but also, while I have built my own machine, I'm not interested in knowing every in and out of the project on which I'm working. ... I was required to buy this for a class and have to say that the book may walk you through the tutorials in an okay manner, but it falls far short of what any true technophile might want in that that the author just spouts out information and how to perform certain tasks without giving full explanations and there isn't even a glossary. So much for reference...about as good as [a software company's] help files... So, for the techies, I'm not buying this is the best reference. For those not so interested in the fine mechanics, but definitely in learning the program solidly with at least some minute understanding, it falls short here also. It is not only as dull as your tongue covered in chalk, but doesn't explain very well why the reader is doing certain tasks or what the base purpose of these simple tasks really is. I'm already looking for other reference materials and we're only five weeks into a fifteen week class... ...bummer. If you're able, shop around and read the reviews carefully.
Rating: Summary: Thorough Review: This was my first exposure to Visual Basic. I found Zak's treatment of the material a straightforward progression-- covering the essential building blocks required to begin to develop applications. The "tutorial" format with accompanying Questions, Exercises, Discovery and Debugging sections greatly assists the assimilation of the material.
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