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Summary: Visual Basic 6.0 Enhanced Edition
Review: Excellent book. Thanks Diane Zak for your innovative method of dealing with Visual Basic programming. Frankly, I have read many books about VB and failed to understand intricacies of the language. I always thought I would fail as a programmer. After going through her book and working on most of the tutorials I am now a confident programmer!!I would recommend this book to every person like me out there!
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Summary: Visual Basic 6.0 Enhanced Edition
Review: Excellent book. Thanks Diane Zak for your innovative method of dealing with Visual Basic programming. Frankly, I have read many books about VB and failed to understand intricacies of the language. I always thought I would fail as a programmer. After going through her book and working on most of the tutorials I am now a confident programmer!! I would recommend this book to every person like me out there!
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Summary: Good introductory book
Review: For a non-programmer, this is an excellent book to step into Visual Basic. It gives practical tutorials in each chapter that are accurate and bug-free. If you want to read the text, you can, but if you just do the tutorials, you will accomplish most of your learning there. It does assume a level of computer literacy, but if you know how to use a mouse, copy+paste, and have used a Windows based data entry screen, you won't drown. The course download...took only about 10 minutes to download on my phone connection.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: I am currently working towards a BA in Information Technology and Diane Zak's VB 6.0 Enhanced Edition was the assigned text for my Programming for Windows course. It was actually not the choice of the college, but the instructor insisted this be the one we use; it's great. Diane's writing style is clear and concise. The lessons build at a good pace and the questions, exercises and discoveries really help me absorb all the information. The hands on practice, practice, practice approach is truly the best way to learn. Diane makes it all very easy to follow and understand, and I'm even having fun creating the projects. I haven't been able to say that about any other programming texts (C, C++) I've read in the past. I'm going to check out Diane's C++ next.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: I am currently working towards a BA in Information Technology and Diane Zak's VB 6.0 Enhanced Edition was the assigned text for my Programming for Windows course. It was actually not the choice of the college, but the instructor insisted this be the one we use; it's great. Diane's writing style is clear and concise. The lessons build at a good pace and the questions, exercises and discoveries really help me absorb all the information. The hands on practice, practice, practice approach is truly the best way to learn. Diane makes it all very easy to follow and understand, and I'm even having fun creating the projects. I haven't been able to say that about any other programming texts (C, C++) I've read in the past. I'm going to check out Diane's C++ next.
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Summary: Stop looking. This is THE book.
Review: I finally feel like a programmer after working with this book.
So often I read programming books and become lost in the theory part. It's nearly impossible to get lost in Diane Zak's book. She will 'hold your hand' and step you through everything while explaining what's going on. In each chapter you will program the example with the author. Following the lessons are loads of great sample problems and questions. My instructor said this is the best text book she has ever used -for any class. I agree 100%. I'm hoping other books by Diane Zak will live up to this one.
Buy this book!
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Summary: Stop looking. This is THE book.
Review: I finally feel like a programmer after working with this book.
So often I read programming books and become lost in the theory part. It's nearly impossible to get lost in Diane Zak's book. She will 'hold your hand' and step you through everything while explaining what's going on. In each chapter you will program the example with the author. Following the lessons are loads of great sample problems and questions. My instructor said this is the best text book she has ever used -for any class. I agree 100%. I'm hoping other books by Diane Zak will live up to this one.
Buy this book!
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Summary: Great Programming Book for new programmers and VB students
Review: I had to buy a copy...for my Visual Basic I online class in college. It's an online class so all the work is done on your own and this book is awesome. The book takes you step-by-step from designing, planning, and coding VB programs. It walks you through every stage of creating a program. Textbook is very detailed and accurate. There are tons of follow up questions at the end of each tutorial and there are plenty of programming exercises at the end of each tutorial as well. I plan on buying Intro to C++ by Diane Zak to study on my own and any other books she writes that I might be interested in as well. I would recommend any books by Diane Zak. I strongly recommend any of her titles.
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Summary: Great Programming Book for new programmers and VB students
Review: I had to buy a copy...for my Visual Basic I online class in college. It's an online class so all the work is done on your own and this book is awesome. The book takes you step-by-step from designing, planning, and coding VB programs. It walks you through every stage of creating a program. Textbook is very detailed and accurate. There are tons of follow up questions at the end of each tutorial and there are plenty of programming exercises at the end of each tutorial as well. I plan on buying Intro to C++ by Diane Zak to study on my own and any other books she writes that I might be interested in as well. I would recommend any books by Diane Zak. I strongly recommend any of her titles.
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Summary: This is an EXTREMELY good book as a starting point
Review: I have used several "beginner" texts on VB 6, but this one has to be the best. With most books I've seen or used, you start out writing a lot of code, the meaning of which isn't exactly clear. This book is different, as it tends to fill in all the holes and help you develop a good understanding of the language before delving into complex code examples. In addition, it emphasizes the planning and execution aspects of a project and helps you develop good coding techniques. If you are as new to computer programming as you are to VB 6, this is an excellent book to get started on.
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