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Summary: Best Intro to vb.net for real programmers
Review: After reading Microsoft Press Step by Step and feeling like I still didn't understand vb.net, I got this book in spite of its bad humor. This is a serious book (presented in a casual way) in that you *really* learn about most of what you need to learn about vb from painting screens to full applications to database access to web forms and more. He uses great technique to not bore you with the same tedium again and again. If you have been shown once or twice how to do something, he doesn't waste your time doing it another 30 times! Upon doing the exercises (this is a tutorial after all), you will have the confidence to develop vb.net applications. Great book. This will remain in my reference forever! I recommend this for serious programmers, I'm not sure if absolute newbies will get it at the fast pace of this book, though.
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Summary: Best VB.Net Book
Review: Although I have only just gone through half of the book, it has gotten me away from playing Counter-Strike (which no other programming book has managed to do).
I spent a whole weekend reading and working through the exercises and am really looking forward to finishing it.
I am now much more comfortable using VB.NET than I have ever been (and trust me I have bought a few VB.NET books).
I had an issue and e-mailed the author, who promptly replied to my e-mail within 4 hours (can't even get my ISP's helpdesk to reply in that time-frame).
All in all, this is a great book and I'll definitely be buying any books that Karl writes.
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Summary: Thank you Moore!
Review: Brilliant, perfect humour level, covers all the important real life projects you want to create. I wrote a personal mail to Karl Moore and told him he was a genius for being able to teach in this smooth way. This book will suit people new to Visual Basic, new to VB.NET or new to programming. So cheap too. Buy it!!
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Summary: I am returning my copy of this book
Review: I am a programmer, familiar with old fashion languages and having had some experience with ASP, SQL Server, Access.
The book has some useful information and tips, shows where to start. However, it is only a set of quick tutorials and I had to order a solid beginner's book anyway.
I find the author's abundant humor very simplistic and annoying. For example when he returns to button control this is what his readers get, "Okay, so you've seen this one before, but I'm feeling repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive. What, not even a sympathy laugh? Sheesh. That's the thanks you get. Anyway, it's a button. You click it; it does stuff. Whoop-de-doo." Then there is list of 5 key properties, 2 key methods, 2 key events and one line of sample code. No explanation provided for any of them.
I don't know why this book got a lot of positive comments.
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Summary: Excellent for experienced AND new programmers!
Review: I have been programming professionally for 17 years, but have very little experience with Visual Basic. This is an excellent book. I skip the "theory" parts of the book, as I don't need them, but they are very well-written, comprehensive, and understandable. I find the tutorials extremely useful, since they show exactly how to use the IDE and get me up to speed on using the particulars of VB.NET. I especially think the "where to go from here" sections are nice, as they get people thinking about ways to improve the sample applications. Mr. Moore's offbeat sense of humor keeps the book from being too dry, and even makes me want to read the theory sections!I also recommended the book to a young friend who has almost no programming experience. He reads all the sections, and is able to understand them quite well. I hope the author goes on to write many more books.
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Summary: Excellent for experienced AND new programmers!
Review: I have been programming professionally for 17 years, but have very little experience with Visual Basic. This is an excellent book. I skip the "theory" parts of the book, as I don't need them, but they are very well-written, comprehensive, and understandable. I find the tutorials extremely useful, since they show exactly how to use the IDE and get me up to speed on using the particulars of VB.NET. I especially think the "where to go from here" sections are nice, as they get people thinking about ways to improve the sample applications. Mr. Moore's offbeat sense of humor keeps the book from being too dry, and even makes me want to read the theory sections! I also recommended the book to a young friend who has almost no programming experience. He reads all the sections, and is able to understand them quite well. I hope the author goes on to write many more books.
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Summary: Buy It!
Review: I have purchased a good number of books on vb.net and none compare to this book. I think the other reviews have hit on the style of the author, he has done a great job making it easy. This book is a must have for the beginner and advanced programmer starting out our moving to vb.net. The tutorial format makes it a great how-to book and at the [$] price it's a no-brainer. Great writing!
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Summary: Instant delivery, great job
Review: I took this book on holiday with me to Majorca.. it was fantastic to read a tutorial book without having to even be in front of the computer. Mr Moore teaches in a way that makes you read and want to learn more. If you're new, or are porting to .NET, this is the book you HAVE to buy!! (ps. it arrived next day for me)
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Summary: Karl Moore's Visual Basic .NET
Review: I'm no computer programmer - yet (one of the reasons why I bought this book I guess), but I do own a computer and when I discovered that Karl Moore had written a book tutorial that I could actually hold in my hands, I became rather excited. I've used many of his online tutorials for sometime now, because I find his style of writing very easy to follow. Being one of the first to buy this book no doubt, I've only got half way through the first tutorial, but it's such an easy read and so easy to understand I just had to start writing a review about it. None of your usual technical jargon here, but explanations and tutorials that are written in plain and clear English! For someone starting out in programming (like me), this book has to be a must and well worth the investment (not that it will break the bank). Karl's style of writing is clear and humorous and makes the whole exercise of learning extremely fun. He almost makes a joke out of the whole thing. Within a few minutes of reading the first couple of pages of tutorial, I had a clear understanding of what this .NET framework was all about. I'm off now to continue reading, it's quite addictive. If you ever read this review Karl, well done for writing a tutorial that my father would understand. I already feel as if I know you! All budding programmers...go buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Great book, amazing author!!
Review: I'm not easily convinced when it comes to technical books, but this is real cream of the crop. I only bought one copy for a new team member in the beginning, but have since ordered eleven - one for each of our NY-based dev team. The author has this amazing ability to describe some really complicated concepts in way that just anyone can understand. And it's isn't all beginner "learn to show a message box" stuff - I've been using VB for years yet by the end of the first tutorial, I'd already learned lots. It don't matter who you are, you can pick it up with this book. Karl writes in a way that is intrinsically interesting. For the first time, he actually made me laugh out loud at a technical book - then on the next line, poised a question that made me stop and think about programming in a completely different light. It's a truly refreshing experience and probably the only technical book I'd take to bed with me. The style of the book is also completely unique. There are eight or so tutorials each covering an area of VB.NET/ASP.NET, split further into different parts. Each of these parts is about fifteen or so pages long and very easy to digest. There are points at which the author progressively "discovers" things with you, whether you're in front of a computer or not, which is just so refreshing. It reads as though Karl is sitting next to you and almost just "thinking out loud". I don't know whether this technique is purposeful - but to be frank, I don't care. It works, it's a great style, and I will be buying copies of all Karl's future books. A VB.NET career in a book? Definitely. Everything you need to know? Definitely. Mounds of hands-on info for just what you really need to know, no excess garbage. Plus, it's hillarious and thought provoking to top. Buy it. By the way, the Amazon listing shows it as having 350 pages. That's wrong - it's actually 550.
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