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Summary: Great Book for The Beginner
Review: I Have often been very skeptical of the "Learn whatever in 21 Days books". However, this book is perfect for the beginner or someone who needs a refresher. The author guides you through all of the concepts in easy "lesson" formatting complete with questions and exersises to help you learn. It however, is very broad. Not a whole lot of detail in this book. However, you can easily geting the Advanced VB books after reading this one. I work in VB on and off as projects arrise. I found this book to be great to refresh my memory of relearn concepts I was never quite sure of. Great work.
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Summary: a good book for learning VB 5.0
Review: I was taking a Visual Basic college course and reading/studying this book simultaneously. I learned more from this book than the class. (I should point out that the course was still using the dated 3.0 version, on Windows 3.11. So much for learning real-world skills at college.) For future readers of this book, I would recommend skipping chapters 7 and 8 (graphic controls and graphic methods.) They really have no place in the workplace. Final summary: Buy this book to learn VB 5.0!
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Summary: This book is a must for beginners
Review: My husband & I had never had anything to do with programming before using VB5. This book made it so easy. It takes you step by step through examples. I worked through the book one chapter at a time from front to end. My husband jumped all around. Using ideas from examples of what the book showed we have already started making our own programs. I wish that there was more to do with SQL & databases - mind you that is getting past the beginners stage. This book is excellent for laying down the foundation of VB5 knowledge. I'd would have still been floundering without it.
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Summary: A good place to start, but not much else. Also MISLEADING
Review: This book is much better than Teach Yourself Visual C++ 5 in 21 Days (by the same authors), but is still geared primarily towards the general basics of the language and its environment. The claims on the back of the book and inside the cover are misleading (you DON'T learn DirectX in this book, other than simple usage of an OCX control by TegoSoft, which I'll bet money on is a company owned by the authors -- they pulled the same trick in their VC++ book). If you don't know VB, this is a good place to start, though I'd recommend "Using Visual Basic 5" from QUE over this book.
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Summary: My first programming book
Review: Well, I liked this book. I was a stay-at-home Mom, had to give up my pottery hobby when the baby was born because it was too dusty. I took up programming instead, started with an earlier version of this book. It was fun. The exercises were motivating. Fun enough to still be at them at 3am after the middle-of-the night feeding. Sure, maybe not everything was documented perfectly, but that's the norm you're going to have to get used to become a developer. Anyhow, this book started me on being a programmer - after a few years of contracting I now work as a developer at one of the largest software development companies in the Pacific Northwest. So here's to a great book that changed my life.
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Summary: Good for me "the beginner"
Review: Working in the customers service end of a software company in central CA, I wanted to understand more of what we were doing. So I borrowed this book and went through chapter by chapter. Sure there were a few typos but when I got to day 16 I was in heaven. My mind was popping with all of the "cool things" I now felt empowered to do with databases. I felt that it was a a great starting point for the programming novice. The one Coveat is to not rely on this text for Direct X. By the time I saw the website everything had changed and was unable to download the programs they instructed me to download. And the example programs were not any help. To understand the concepts they are talking about just play Half-Life and you will see what they are talking about.
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Summary: Good for me "the beginner"
Review: Working in the customers service end of a software company in central CA, I wanted to understand more of what we were doing. So I borrowed this book and went through chapter by chapter. Sure there were a few typos but when I got to day 16 I was in heaven. My mind was popping with all of the "cool things" I now felt empowered to do with databases. I felt that it was a a great starting point for the programming novice. The one Coveat is to not rely on this text for Direct X. By the time I saw the website everything had changed and was unable to download the programs they instructed me to download. And the example programs were not any help. To understand the concepts they are talking about just play Half-Life and you will see what they are talking about.
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