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Summary: Do you really have time to read all that?
Review: Not bad for someone likes to read alot. It talks too much and not enough labs to cover the real hands on exercises.
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Summary: Good if you want to learn how to make little boxes
Review: OK, get this everyone... dont start w/ this book. it goes too fast and doesnt tell you enough about what the heck its talking about. It doesnt teach you "coding" more or less about how to make boxes, i read to about chapter 5 and i hadnt even gotten out variables... wtf? Heres what i did and now im at C++ and doing fine Get :
Beginning Programming For Dummies
Visual Basic 6 for complete idiots
Search online.. play around a lot w/ visual basic
Teach Yourself C++ Edition 6. (This book is a godsend)
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Summary: Good if you want to learn how to make little boxes
Review: OK, get this everyone... dont start w/ this book. it goes too fast and doesnt tell you enough about what the heck its talking about. It doesnt teach you "coding" more or less about how to make boxes, i read to about chapter 5 and i hadnt even gotten out variables... wtf? Heres what i did and now im at C++ and doing fine Get :
Beginning Programming For Dummies
Visual Basic 6 for complete idiots
Search online.. play around a lot w/ visual basic
Teach Yourself C++ Edition 6. (This book is a godsend)
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Summary: VB6 in 24 SAMS
Review: Ordered book and CDROM is missing from book. The package calls for a WORKING MODEL EDITION of MSVB6.0 WHERE's The beef???????
No phone or contact info to call,,,,,,HELP ME.
Anthony
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Summary: The Book Was very good
Review: The book explained visual basic very well and learning was quite easy! I am still in the process of reading it but have already made many programs
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Summary: Your Computer Stands At Idle As You Read
Review: The book for most part has good information for beginners but I found your reading code more than your "actually" doing hands on programming with Visual Basic.The only thing that appealed to me to buy it was the control creation edition 5 on the CD. Lucky for me I bought another book from Microsoft Press by Micheal Halvorson the step by step guide, now it makes more sense. If you buy this edition, you may want another book which you can learn "Hands on". You spend more than 8 chapters reading before any real exercises surface in this book. That's way too long, and little boring if your first starting out. Just buy it for the CCE, and start with another book, works for me!
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Summary: Totally and completely bogus book
Review: There is absolutely no value in this book. The elementary postulate has been broken - teaching computer language without any examples, nothing! That is not the way to learn. Author spends pages and pages in endless blabber about the features of VB without presenting any examples. The book itself is an example of how to earn quick buck from naive looking for elementary tutorial. Shameful.
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Summary: The best beginner's book I've ever read!
Review: There is no doubt in my mind that this will be the best computer programming book that I will read this year, unless maybe I read one of my own ;-). I was joking of course, but seriously Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours is excellent. First of all, the chapters are broken into realistic parts. There is just enough content in each chapter to fill about an hour. That means you can sit down at your computer and have time to grasp a task without needing to put the book down due to some other distraction. Also, the authors don't waste too much time going over irrelevant theoretical concepts, although they do cover some necessities in the early chapters. Second, you CAN complete this book in 24 one hour sessions. I think it took me about two weeks to get through this book, and I didn't even push myself. In general I think that the chapters take about an hour to work/read through, but inevitably you will spend more time on the exercises than you need to. Last, I think that the examples make a great deal of sense. The authors teach real world needs, in other words, you won't waste much time learning things you'll never use. The examples are also fun; because they are short/constructive exercises, you will find your self feeling rewarded once you complete each chapter. This is a book you will enjoy learning from. In all, I give this book a BIG 5 stars. The authors do an outstanding job moving the reader at a deliberate, yet productive pace. I recommend highly to those that have and don't have experience with VB or other programming languages/tools.
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Summary: You've got to learn to walk before you can run
Review: There's another version of this that comes w/ a developing version of VB6 - w/ the exception that you can't compile your programs. Still, it's good enough to work along w/ the book as you're reading it. I bought VB1 a LONG time ago, and upgraded to VB3 years later. Back then, VB was still a little difficult to work w/ but I managed to get a few very helpful applications written for myself. Now, searching like a madman for a freeware/shareware version of something that would meet my specific needs, I'd given up and decided to write it myself. The question I had to ask myself was, "Is VB6 worth the upgrade?" To just write a few small applications and the hastle of learning another version? The answer is a resolute - YES! This book just touches the surface of what VB6 is capable of doing, but it's enough to get you started. Once you've mastered the small apps here, you can go to online resources for more in depth help. I'd buy this book, as well as a more in-depth book that's filled w/ examples. You have to start somewhere!
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Summary: Visual Basic Commercial
Review: This book does an excellent job of singing the praises of VB's interface without giving away any of the code to make them useful. Consider it more of an overview to Visual Basic, but dont plan on learning any script here.
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