Visual Basic 6 Programming Blue Book: The Most Complete, Hands-On Resource for Writing Programs with Microsoft Visual Basic 6!

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Summary: VB for PRE-beginners and Experts
Review: This book is for pre-beginners. It explains what the mouse is and what "Click" means. I had to wade through pages and pages of garbage like "this is the start menu" and "this is a button" to find any useful information. Then suddenly the author dives headfirst into objects and stacks. 1st too slow, then too fast.

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Summary: Good For Beginners
Review: This book is okay for beginers. Serial communication is very poor, even the Internet programming, so if you're looking info about this subjects don't buy this book, if you're a beginner, this book is for you.

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Summary: Extensive and In Depth Book.
Review: This book starts off as so many other programming books do,with a few exeptions. The history is brief and to the point. The first chapter is dedicated to getting you ready for hands on Work with Visual Basic 6, and assumes a prior knowledge of basic Windows expierience. I find this book the be an exellent
resource for anyone wanting to learn Visual Basic. The few problems I found, was the constant repeating of "How to do his..." For myself this is rather annoying but for the beginner this "feature" will help you to remember simple things such as changing properties. When you complete this book, you will be ready to start writing you own Visual Basic programs with ease. One Word of warning, chapter 4 is a very in depth look at variables. Im now sure what the auther was thinking by putting so much information in one chapter, but at least is makes for easy refrence. The way I got through chapter 4 was to take lots and lots of notes, and refer back to them as needed. How ever after working with variables through out the book there's no doubt you can master them.