Automating Science and Engineering Laboratories with Visual Basic

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Summary: An excellent resource for those active in lab automation
Review: There is numerous laboratory instrumentation and many laboratory operations using Visual Basic in some form with laboratory automation being a large user of Visual Basic programs. The book is written by Mark Russo and Marty Echols of Bristol-Myers-Squibb who are active in lab automation and have presented a course on this topc at national and international meetings. I liked the way this book to a straightforward approach to the topic with good explanations and sample problems throughout. It additionally provides information on how to download problems from the Wiley ftp site will would allow the authors the opportunity to update problems making the book less likely to suffer the fate of many books since unfortunately sometimes books are obsolete by the time they are published. This book is divided into 26 chapters with 3 appendices. It's 345 pages allow the topic to be covered in sufficient depth to make an important contribution to the automation literature. In addition to being an excellent resource for learning Visual Basic in laboratory operations, the book would also make an ideal text for a class on the topic. It should be included in the library of those interested in laboratory automation