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Summary: Well, I liked it...
Review: First of all, by no means did I expect to 'really' learn VBScripting over a weekend. I only purchased this book as an additional learning source as I believe in approaching learning through a repetitive process. This book attempts to make learning VBScripting fun by almost immediately showing how to apply VBScripting to Web pages. It doesn't do a good job at really digging in to VBScripting that would be useful to an Administrator working in computers. Feels more like something for someone retired sitting at home playing with his computer for fun. What really bothers me about this book is I would expect a bit more care to go into proof reading and correcting mistakes with a book on programming or scripting. How can someone teach me about proper syntax when they fail to include the correct spelling for the basic english language?!! This book is also FILLED with typo errors, incorrect screenshots, and outdated or useless website references which often make the book difficult to understand or follow. So, thumbs down on this one. Keep looking. You'll find much better books. (...)
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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY
Review: First of all, by no means did I expect to 'really' learn VBScripting over a weekend. I only purchased this book as an additional learning source as I believe in approaching learning through a repetitive process. This book attempts to make learning VBScripting fun by almost immediately showing how to apply VBScripting to Web pages. It doesn't do a good job at really digging in to VBScripting that would be useful to an Administrator working in computers. Feels more like something for someone retired sitting at home playing with his computer for fun. What really bothers me about this book is I would expect a bit more care to go into proof reading and correcting mistakes with a book on programming or scripting. How can someone teach me about proper syntax when they fail to include the correct spelling for the basic english language?!! This book is also FILLED with typo errors, incorrect screenshots, and outdated or useless website references which often make the book difficult to understand or follow. So, thumbs down on this one. Keep looking. You'll find much better books. (...)
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Summary: Complete wate of money and TIME
Review: I too found the book lacking in its explanations. In most cases it failed to breakdown the scripts adequately. It also failed to provide comprehensive examples. For instance the SetTimeOut function was not adequately explained as to what its syntax is and how it functions. When Frames were addressed the book provided three separate pages. How would a beginner know how to put all of the pages together to achieve their goal? The book should have shown what a script that includes frames looks like when it is complete. I am sure there are other examples of what is lacking in this text but I will never know. I am moving on to another book that hopefully will provide me with strong basics I am missing with this book. The only saving grace for me is I have a background in VB and VBA. Heaven help anyone who does not come to this book with previous VB knowledge.
This was written as if the author was trying to make a very tight deadline and shame on Premier Press for publishing it. The above favorable reviews must have been written by family and friends.
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Summary: Covers all the basics from A - Z
Review: There are not very many up-to-date books that cover VBScript and most of them are aimed at experienced programmers. This book is perfect for first time programmers, future web developers and would-be system administrators. It assumes very little prior experience and takes you from A to Z in 7 easy to read chapters. Don't expect to read the entire book in a single weekend if you plan to follow along and recreate all the example scritps for yourself. Still, if you want to learn how to work with VBScript this book will give you a big head start. I recommend that you read this book first and then move on to one of the more technical VBScripts books.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book is for beginners. It is very well written and keeps your attention. I recommend it as a first book. For the guy that only gave it 1 star, who in their right mind would think they can pick up a 350 page book on vbscripts and think that they will be able to administer their network? That aside, i suggest everyone that is interested buy it. It's probably the only updated book on vbscripts that you will find and well worth the 25 or so bucks.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book is for beginners. It is very well written and keeps your attention. I recommend it as a first book. For the guy that only gave it 1 star, who in their right mind would think they can pick up a 350 page book on vbscripts and think that they will be able to administer their network? That aside, i suggest everyone that is interested buy it. It's probably the only updated book on vbscripts that you will find and well worth the 25 or so bucks.
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Summary: Well, I liked it...
Review: This is a good book. There are not many books in print that focus on VBScript and most of them seem to me to be written for hard core programmers. Learn VBScript in a Weekend goes a long way to filling the void of 'unwritten entry-level books' on VBScript.
It easy to understand and doesn't overwhelm you with technical mumbo-jumbo. Its probably not something a master programmer is looking for but for people new to VBScript and the WSH or for new programmers book I think that this book provides a great starting point. It begins with a good introduction to VBScript. After that the author shows you how to use VBScript to help spice up your web pages. The last half of the book is dedicated to covering VBScript and the WSH. Here you'll learn how to do collect system information, work with the registry, write to event logs, create log files and reports, interact with users using popup dialogs and a lot more.
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