Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: An Object-Oriented Approach- Comprehensive

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Summary: Poorly Organized and Non-Functional Examples
Review: This is one of the worst books I've used to teach a programming language course. I'm sorry I let the university talk me into using it. The book is organized around examples rather than concepts. As a result, each chapter is full of a disjointed collection of concepts -- a poor idea for an introductory programming course. In addition, many examples do not work, forcing the instructor to debug the examples. If you're looking for a good introductory book for Visual Basic .Net, I suggest "Visual Basic .Net How to Program", 2nd Ed (ISBN: 0130293636) by Dietel, Dietel, and Nieto.