Rating: 
Summary: A Good Beginner's VB.Net Resource
Review: Mr. Smiley's book is a good way for those beginning to program to jump into Microsoft's lastest version of Visual Basic.Net.Excellent for beginners, this work will help you learn the basics of VB.Net, as well as event-driven Windows programming in general. Chapters of the book cover areas such as user interface design, looping, file operations, data types, error handling, etc. All of the basics are covered here in a good fashion, in the form of a classroom setting. For those wishing to both learn to program as well as to leap into VB.Net, this book is a fine starting point.
Rating: 
Summary: Hopeless and Annoying
Review: This book has too much conversation going on that it is easy to miss the point. This book was a total waste of money. I am new to VB.NET and wanted to learn it; not listen to people talking back and forth.
Rating: 
Summary: Good-Probably a Caveat for all technical books--See Below
Review: This book is good; I'm a definate beginner although I've read other books on the subject and have played around with vb .net. Really never broke down and really studied to learn. Decided I should; in most technical books I very much doubt that beginners will notice errors unless they are obvious. It was not until chapter 5 that I noticed one. Involved renaming the checkboxes 2-7 if I remember correctly which are in groupbox1. In the book it said groupbox2 which is where the radiobuttons are at. This popped out as a definate error; went online to: (...)
and yes it was there.
Still recommend this book; caveat, always look up the errata page on any technical book if your a newbie and even if you have some professional background. Didn't realize until after the errata page that there were minor errors beforehand and now I know where to look for those ahead to prevent any difficulties in an otherwise good book.
"see the errata"
Rating:
Summary: Best Book Out There For Beginners
Review: This is an extremely well written introduction to VB.Net, simulating a classroom setting. It starts off gently
for novices and builds momentum in a comprehensible way.
The author is a Microsoft-certified expert but is also
a teacher by profession with years of teaching experience.
I also recommend the author's web-based course on VB.Net,
one of the best Internet training bargains around
(available at JohnSmiley com).
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