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Summary: A excellent VB book and a must for new VB programmers
Review: This book takes you right to the core of VB concepts while provides rich and practical examples you would love to play around with. The book extends from VB's very heart to all blood-related area including VB database programming, VB internet programming, Window API and more. This book made my learning experiences of VB full of joy and with great ease. It's not what you learn but how you learn it matters. Buy this book and it will show you how. It's worth every cents of it.
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Summary: Excellent Beginner book for anyone intrested in OOP.
Review: The Step by Step Visual Basic book is one of the best programming books I've read in years. I have been programming in a number of languages for several years now, and I have yet with the exception of this book to find an author who has the written abiltiy to convey his/her technical thoughts to the reader. Therefore, I would like to thank Michael Halvorson in his efforts to produce such a fine piece of work...all programming books should be written in such a manner, that is written for the reader to understand after all the reader is the one buying the material and supporting the authors.
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Summary: Learn Essential Visual Basic 6.0 Programming Techniques!
Review: Are you ready to learn Visual Basic programming skills from the ground up? This best-selling programming tutorial is designed for new programmers and experienced developers who want the inside scoop on Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition, the popular development environment for Windows and Windows NT systems. As a former Microsoft Visual Basic localization manager and educator with five VB books under my belt, I have a pretty good understanding of the essential development techniques-and teaching trends-in Visual Basic programming. We'll cover these topics together step by step using 24 example-rich lessons that explore user-interface design, program code and language elements, ActiveX controls, graphics programming, text processing and encryption, Office Automation, leveraging the Windows API, Internet programming, and advanced database programming techniques (including ADO). Four chapters devoted specifically to integrating VB with the Web make this book a useful resource for programmers who need to leverage the Internet in their daily work. Order this book today and join over three million software developers who use Visual Basic in their daily work!
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Summary: You can get more for less!!
Review: The title of this book should be, "VB for Dummies", Yes, the book is OK! It is well written and easy to read. But if you are serious about really beginning VB, you might do yourself a favor and buy a thicker, cheaper book. It's true, you will have an vague idea of what VB does after reading this book but that's all! In a month or so, you will be back at the bookstore looking for another book.
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Summary: Wordy
Review: I don't know why people think it's so cool. It's not bad, but it's too wordy and repetitive. And that kills the fun of programming. It talks too much instead of giving you chance to practice.
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Summary: Good place to start for an intermediate user.
Review: An excellent place to start for previous users of any version of VB or the Office power user. If you have never used VB, VBA or done any programing in Windows you may get frustrated with out a basic OOP foundation to pull from.
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Summary: I've seen it! The future of Visual Basic! But shhhh...!
Review: Alright, my publisher will kill me if I tell you too much about my forthcoming book about the next version of Visual Basic. However, I *can* tell you that the book is near completion and will contain 24 step by step lessons with hot new information about the newest version of Visual Basic. I have designed this programming tutorial specifically for users of the Professional Edition of Visual Basic, and cover in detail what I consider to be the essential programming topics in Visual Basic development: user-interface design, program code fundamentals, graphics programming, text processing and encryption, Office Automation, calling the Windows API, Internet programming, and advanced database programming techniques. Order this book the day Visual Basic is released and be the first in your office or workgroup to learn the newest features of Visual Basic!
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Summary: Good book but not really well laid out
Review: "Visual Basic 6.0 Step by Step" is a good book. It covers many topics in VB programming well and is a decent intro to the language. With that said, I must ask what on Earth was the author thinking when he laid this book out. There are several glaring issues with the way topics are presented. What on Earth does error handling have to do with printers and multiple forms and why are they all three covered in one chapter. Huh? To make matters worse he covers debugging in Chapter 6 with decision structures. Let's see If...Then, Select...Case and Step Into/Breakpoints. WHAT! If I were an editor on this book I would seriously have knocked that structure into Puget Sound and placed things that belong together together. However, even with this somewhat jarring layout the book makes its points well and also provides plenty of good exercises for students. I like that. I recommend the book as a learning text. It is archaic in some areas and it has some layout issues BUT it is a good tome.
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Summary: Better books out there
Review: I bought this and 3 other vb book for work and I think this is easily the worst one. It doesn't explain a lot of the code, which is why I bought the book. Also the way it's organized isn't very easy to follow. I bought this book because I firugre that Microsoft would know their product the best but apparently not. My advice is to look for another book on the subject.
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Summary: Very Promising
Review: I recieved the book as it was labled, They were very quick in sending the book. Very trustworty, I would definately buy from them again A++++++!!
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