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Summary: Overall a good tutorial on VBScript, even tho' it's outdated
Review: Don't buy this book in the yera 2000... buy VBScript Programmer's Reference instead, by Wrox Press. It covers the latest and greatest, VBScript 5.0, instead of Lomax's rinky-dink 1.0 and a bit of 2.0 coverage. I gave this book 3 stars, though, because the quality of Lomax's "lessons" and explanations are great if you are new to VB or a scripting language. Indeed, Lomax demonstrates how VBScript is much easier to learn than JavaScript.Overall, it is better to buy a book that is more updated. This is a dinosaur in today's lightning-speed techno market, and it needs to be put in the museum (c'mon, 1997? )
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Summary: Like other O'Rielly books, this one is excellent
Review: Don't let the lack of pictures fool you into thinking that this book is for experts only. This is an excellent desktop reference as well as a good teaching tools. The CD-ROM is comprehensive, and the examples cover just about everything.
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Summary: beginners only
Review: For experienced/intermediate programmers, this books is not the way to go. It dedicates too many pages covering rudimentery programming basics (control structures, etc..). For anyone who has ever programmed before if their life, the first 250 pages will completely bore you. For those of you who need to to learn vbscript fast and complete, a reference book maybe the way to go especially if you've done any programming before and especially if you already know javascript. 500+ pages is too much for a very simple and easy to use scripting language. It is a book definitely geared towards neophytes.
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Summary: Great bridge to VBScript for ASP
Review: I had been developing strictly with perl for Unix, when I needed to do some work on an NT platform I ordered this book. I used it coupled with O'Reilly's ASP in a nutshell and finished the job quickly. It is a great reference for migrating from other scripting languages.
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Summary: Great bridge to VBScript for ASP
Review: I had been developing strictly with perl for Unix, when I needed to do some work on an NT platform I ordered this book. I used it coupled with O'Reilly's ASP in a nutshell and finished the job quickly. It is a great reference for migrating from other scripting languages.
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Summary: The author could not make up his mind about the readership
Review: I was given this book to read for a course I am taking in an educational institution. I found the book a big pain to read. The author wants to write for beginners and at the same time appeal to those with programming experience. If you are a virtual beginner like me, this book will confuse you. Chapters 1 and 2 are enlightening to the beginner, but beyond that, the author's attempts to pander to those who are experienced in VB programming leaves a beginner confused. Without any prior warning, the author suddenly introduces new programming techniques, with the assumption that the reader was familiar with the subject. Then the author, with the same suddenness, remembers the beginner reader and then attempts to please him/her too. Sometimes, it is the reverse: the authors starts out by addressing the beginner, and suddenly off he goes addressing the experienced programmer. This makes the book disorganized and verbose and difficult to read. I have read books on introduction to other programming languages and I found Chapter 3 of this book the worst I have read so far on variables, declaration of variables, constants, etc. This book is certainly not the best for a beginner or those who, in addition to learning a programming language, would want the aesthetic pleasure of a well organized and succint book. Sometimes I wished I could 'cut and re-paste' the paragraphs or simply 'cut!'
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Summary: Overall a good tutorial on VBScript, even tho' it's outdated
Review: I won't be long and all i will say is that I knew almost nothing about vbscript before I read this book and by the time I finished it I had enough knowledge and tools to program rather complicated codes! The only bad point is that the book is quite old and covers only versions 1.0 and 2.0 and requires some updating from the msn web site. But in the end of the day Paul Lomax is realy amazing and the book is really really good.
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Summary: The best vbscript book for begginers!
Review: I won't be long and all i will say is that I knew almost nothing about vbscript before I read this book and by the time I finished it I had enough knowledge and tools to program rather complicated codes! The only bad point is that the book is quite old and covers only versions 1.0 and 2.0 and requires some updating from the msn web site. But in the end of the day Paul Lomax is realy amazing and the book is really really good.
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Summary: Hard to find what your looking for
Review: The book is a great step by step approach for creating simple VBScripts that could be created even easier in JScript/JavaScript. If you are assigned a project by your manager that needs to be done in VBScript, and needs to be done yesterday, forget about trying to find out how to do it or what tools you will need to use in this book. You spend more time finding the right subroutines then trying to figure out how to write the script. I remember a time when I could trust the O'Reilly name, but not anymore.
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Summary: Good start, but too old to use
Review: This book is a good start for learning VBScript if you are still back in the dark ages, or using IE3.0. I was hoping for a book that would teach many of the updated code tricks for use with IE4.0, but this isn't the book I should have bought.
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