Visual Basic (Bootcamp) Certification Exam Guide

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Summary: I feel so bad that I waste my money
Review: I didn't like this book at all.

Lots of errors, not even close to the amount of material needed, way too disorganized. The authors are terrible book writers. It's just a mess.

The authors should be ashamed. What a disaster their boot camp must be.

Highly UN-recommended.

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Summary: Read it if you like being confused, mislead, and lied to
Review: I don't know what this book was written about, but it wasn't Visual Basic, and it certainly doesn't prepare anybody for an exam, nor does it cover any version of Windows that Microsoft ever released. Perhaps if they learned to read so they could edit it... For example, page 82; why does the Printer object have a PopupMenu method? This book was a joke.

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Summary: A good introduction to VB5
Review: I have a H.B.Sc. in physics, have taught at the high school level and came to this language already knowing C. I can't really comment on this book's suitability as VB study guide because I haven't tried the exam yet, but I am prepared to endorse it as a concise and useful introduction to the language.

As many reviewers have pointed out, this book has some typos and some minor coding errors, but the content, style and exercises more than make up for the lack of editing. Snippets of code are used to illustrate the major ideas before things are tied together with an exercise. I found it to be a pretty quick and painless read and learned much more from this book than the first one i tried. It may not be a certification guide but I feel it is an excellent intoduction that will get you programming in vb5 very quickly.

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Summary: Now I know what a boot camp is like!
Review: This book is very hard to be rated. It does discuss and encourage the reader to explore a lot of useful details in VB. among all the VB books I have read, for example, this one is the best in explaining and showing the scoping rules. also the exercises after each chapter are pretty good. However, this book's quality is poor. When I was reading the book, thank goodness I already knew VB, otherwise, I would pull off all my hair in order to make some sense out of the book. A lot of information was wrong, a lot of pictures were misplaced and some exercises left unanswered. Maybe that is the whole idea of "bootcamp." After all, this book would be an excellent resource for experienced VB programmers, however, it would be a nightmare for those who try to learn VB from this book.