Teach Yourself Visual Basic 4 in 21 Days

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Summary: A good "learn at home " tome
Review: I picked up this book for a little review for the interview/resume circuit and leaned a few more additional programming tricks that were not mentioned in my two quarters of VB at a local community college. (A taught class would cover this volume of material in about three weeks, too.) Anyone new to VB could get a good introduction to the VB interface. The style of constructing simple utility programs to teach one or two concepts is preferred in my mind. The book was written with both VB 3 and VB 4 in mind and in some places the differences are not noted and could give a novice programmer a fit! The price is right and in all fairness, a person could go through the entire book in 21 days and know a little bit about VB. It may whet your interest for going on to more of a grown up text. Dennis George, Seattle, WA

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Summary: a disappointment
Review: Purports to teach everything in 21 days, but barely skips over fundamentals. Sloppy design, information not concise - one does a lot of page turning to glean a valuable piece of information. Might be attractive to a beginner for making him feel like he is progressing along, but anyone with at least basic programming experience is left high and dry.

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Summary: Easy to understand, great examples - an AWESOME book
Review: Teach Yourself VisualBasic 4 in 21 Days is the best book for people who are just starting in the programming world. Using the great "Teach Yourself..." method the book has at least 1 great example for every topic it discusses. All your questions are answered here. In weeks you'll be writing proffesional looking applications.

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Summary: This book is great! It teaches you how to make games.
Review: This book is fantastic. It doesn't spend to much time on any one topic and it doesn't go off and take 20 pages to explain what a string is. This book tells you what your are doing, why, and how to put what you have learned into a real life program. It quickly moves through the material but it doesn't move so fast that you can't understand. In about a week you start producing some great programs. In another week or so you will be making games, learning about sprites, 3D worlds, polygons, how to incoorporate music into your programs and so on. This book actually teaches you how to make games.

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Summary: This book is great! It teaches you how to make games.
Review: This book is fantastic. It doesn't spend to much time on any one topic and it doesn't go off and take 20 pages to explain what a string is. This book tells you what your are doing, why, and how to put what you have learned into a real life program. It quickly moves through the material but it doesn't move so fast that you can't understand. In about a week you start producing some great programs. In another week or so you will be making games, learning about sprites, 3D worlds, polygons, how to incoorporate music into your programs and so on. This book actually teaches you how to make games.

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Summary: Cool Book to LEARN from..
Review: This Teach Yourself book is the best. It actually does teach you VB 4 in 21 days.. depending on how long you work on it each day.The ONLY gotcha with this book is that they use some third party controls that you need to "buy" before you can complete the book (they recommend reading on even if you don't have the controls. I think I was able to substitute a few of the TegoSoft controls, but it was rather annoying that they didn't use the tools available in VB4 but chose to use some third party controls that were not available for evaluation, etc. Anyway, the third party control issue happens near the end of the book.. and it's still an awesome book despite this single shortcoming.