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Summary: Bad for all types!
Review: I found this book quite useful actually, now my monitor is more level with my face after placing this book under it! The book has lots of examples but doesn't thoroughly explain them. The index is way less than incomplete and the book is unkempt.I've read MANY computer books of all sorts and this one comes out on bottom, I have to say.
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Summary: Bad for all types!
Review: I found this book quite useful actually, now my monitor is more level with my face after placing this book under it! The book has lots of examples but doesn't thoroughly explain them. The index is way less than incomplete and the book is unkempt. I've read MANY computer books of all sorts and this one comes out on bottom, I have to say.
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Summary: GREAT VALUE!
Review: I have a shelf full of books on Visual Basic. Many of them are over-priced thousand page monsters that simply collect dust because the information I need is too hard to find. This book is not only a great value at a reasonable price, it is also a useful reference for a beginning to intermediate level programmer. I can easily find the information I am looking for. The steps are spelled out clearly and code examples are provided as well. This book would be a worthy addition to anyones Visual Basic library. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: GREAT VALUE!
Review: I have a shelf full of books on Visual Basic. Many of them are over-priced thousand page monsters that simply collect dust because the information I need is too hard to find. This book is not only a great value at a reasonable price, it is also a useful reference for a beginning to intermediate level programmer. I can easily find the information I am looking for. The steps are spelled out clearly and code examples are provided as well. This book would be a worthy addition to anyones Visual Basic library. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Not for Beginners
Review: I tried to learn from an electronic version of this book called Using Visual Basic 6. After you make the Calendar project, you'll be scratching your head saying, well I don't understand what the code is for, but you will be starving for more step by step projects. After all it is rewarding to make a project, and see it work. Then you look farther into the book, and there are not so many projects really. They just go on and on about stuff that you will never remember, not even using it in a real implementation. Too much at once. Take the chapter on "What's New in VB6"? Its All New to me. I could not finish because I am new to all this. That being said, When I got this book, you can imagine my surprise when It was that same book I already had, but with a new name! I have to say the book was much nicer in real life. It looked good compared to the electronic version. But I was not about to read it again. Therefor, I give it 3 stars for the fact I did not read it all the way, and it says its for Beginners, that I don't believe. Maybe Programers beginning VB6? I guess Using VB6 (Former Name) wasn't for beginners, I don't know?
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Summary: Good value for visual basic introduction
Review: If you are new to visual basic, I recommend this book. It covers most areas that is needed including the use of VB for internet application. The best price for an introduction to visual basic. Easy to read and quickly appliable.
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Summary: Practical Visual Basic 6
Review: The best VB reference I've used (out of about 5). It is easy to find what you are looking for and has the best index. The examples are thorough and very informative.
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Summary: Practical Visual Basic 6
Review: The best VB reference I've used (out of about 5). It is easy to find what you are looking for and has the best index. The examples are thorough and very informative.
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Summary: Average book
Review: There is no easy way in evaluating this book. One can always say the classic response, 'It was all right' and just walk away.
The book had much more examples to look at than in had tutorial type examples. It was fast reading. In the sample code the book teaches you the code by mixing it with other new concepts that will be explained later on. This somewhat leaves one with a funny feeling that the whole is not yet fully understood. Most of the sample applications, though sometimes very long in code, are not exactly real world applications. The book seems much easier than what it appears to be. A number of chapters, such as Activex components and data forms, cannot be done with the Learners Edition of Visual Basic thats provided in the book cd.
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Summary: Average book
Review: There is no easy way in evaluating this book. One can always say the classic response, ???It was all right??? and just walk away.
The book had much more examples to look at than in had tutorial type examples. It was fast reading. In the sample code the book teaches you the code by mixing it with other new concepts that will be explained later on. This somewhat leaves one with a funny feeling that the whole is not yet fully understood. Most of the sample applications, though sometimes very long in code, are not exactly real world applications. The book seems much easier than what it appears to be. A number of chapters, such as Activex components and data forms, cannot be done with the Learners Edition of Visual Basic thats provided in the book cd.
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