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Summary: An update of a highly-popular, time-tested tutorial!
Review: "Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours" is 450 pages of well-honed content, a CD and a language reference tear-out card at an unbeatably low price. This time-tested product ensures you'll get up-to-speed with Visual Basic 6 in the shortest time possible. The book includes a CD with the author's source code and sample projects, as well as Microsoft's Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition - an excellent way to test drive the Visual Basic environment if you haven't already purchased the product. Thank you for considering the purchase of this highly popular package. Please contact me directly if you have any questions regarding this, or any other Sams programming product.
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Summary: This is a good starter book.
Review: * Complete this first and you are ready to go.* This book provides a good general survey of VB6. * There is little detailed coverage of topics. * VB6 is vast; so, you will need to study more.
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Summary: Teach Yourself to Edit Technical Books in 24 Hours
Review: Add me to the list of disappointed readers who don't enjoy learning by hunting down the authors' coding errors. Given that VB6 is still the standard in mid 2001, one would expect a trusted technical publisher like Sams to include at least an errata insert if they're unwilling to correct these three-year-old mistakes in the current market edition. A further warning: Readers are frequently directed to VB's online help for details, like properties, which the book does not cover. Only problem is: the VB Working Model that's provided on CD has no online help.
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Summary: I don't get it!
Review: After reading through hour 7 (a fair 100 pages) I was completely bogged down with this book. It spends 4-5 pages explaining focus (something any windows user understands in about 2 seconds) then races through 4-5 pages of solid terms with no explaination as to why they are important or to what use they will be. This makes understanding very difficult and also makes for a very boring read. Very disapointed with this purchase and would not recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Good Intro to VB
Review: As a MIS major in a co-op school, I thought that learning VB would give me a competitive advantage when I applied for a job. This book was excellent in providing a general overview of all of the things that you can do with VB. Like a survey course in college, however, it merely scratches the surface. THE BEST WAY TO LEARN VB is not through a book, class or any other academic environment. THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS BY DOING IT. Hands-on (not the easy spoon-feed exercises found in most books) experience is the best teacher. I wanted to learn VB, so I would get a job where I use it every day. The better I get, the more I would get paid. However, this is not always possible, and I recommend the following books for those who want real "hands on" exercises: Visual Basic 6 Developer's Workshop and Sams Teach Yourself MORE Visual Basic in 21 Days.
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Summary: VB6 in 24 hours... kinda
Review: As an old DOS programmer that left the field because of Windows programming demands, I was pleasantly surprised at the ease one can program in VB6. This book, however, was not a good investment. It's true you get what you pay for. There's a number of code and editing errors here that one can lose time scratching one's head over. I'd suggest going with the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition instead. Despite a higher investment.
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Summary: find something else to spend your money on
Review: as with every book from sams publishing, contrary to the suggestion of the cover, you will learn nothing from this book in 24 hours, 21 days, or any length of time you decided to spend on it. take the money you would spend on this, go out and buy dinner, the end result will be far more productive (youll do a poo).
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Summary: find something else to spend your money on
Review: as with every book from sams publishing, contrary to the suggestion of the cover, you will learn nothing from this book in 24 hours, 21 days, or any length of time you decided to spend on it. take the money you would spend on this, go out and buy dinner, the end result will be far more productive (youll do a poo).
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Summary: Can I POSSIBLY Give A Lower Rating?
Review: AWFUL! There is nothing more that can possibly be stated about this atrocious work. This book is certainly not for beginners. I am not sure that this book serves any "good" for the intermediate or advanced VB programmers. I am not sure what "good" this book serves at all, except for my using it as firewood next Winter!
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Summary: A Very Good Book. Not Great, but Very Good.
Review: Being completely new to VB, I bought this book to get me up and running, and it has done that. I agree with some of the other reviews about how it's kind of long winded in some parts, and light in others. Definitely not a definitive book, but to get you going quickly, it gets the job done! My only beef with it is that the instructions given in Lesson 19 on how to create a toolbar don't work, and when you install the code from the CD it fails to load. Every other lesson was great though, especially if you're one who can learn from examples. I'd reccomend it as a step into VB programming, just be prepared to continue with other books when you're done with this one.
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