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Summary: John Smiley Does it again!
Review: Professor John Smiley has done it again! His new book "Learn to Program Objects With Visual Basic" is another five star publication for those, beginner - intermediate and even advanced, Visual Basic Programmers wanting to learn about Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Both, my wife and I thoroughly enjoy learning about VB Programming via John's unique style of writing and his sence of humor. He takes what is normally very technical & dry content and, by simulating an actual college class environment, maintains your interest through dialog between the Teacher and Students in the class. He has a way of explaining not only the theory (why's), but also the practical application "how's" of VB by assisting his "Class" develop and update a "Real World" application. I have purchased, read, and learned from all of John's books on Visual Basic Programming and am looking forward to learning more from his future writings. This book is a must for any one wishing to learn about Object Oriented Programming. What more can I say except experience a true 5 Star author by purchasing one or all of his books, And enjoy watching his students as they learn to program from a Master.
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Summary: John Smiley Does it again!
Review: Professor John Smiley has done it again! His new book "Learn to Program Objects With Visual Basic" is another five star publication for those, beginner - intermediate and even advanced, Visual Basic Programmers wanting to learn about Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Both, my wife and I thoroughly enjoy learning about VB Programming via John's unique style of writing and his sence of humor. He takes what is normally very technical & dry content and, by simulating an actual college class environment, maintains your interest through dialog between the Teacher and Students in the class. He has a way of explaining not only the theory (why's), but also the practical application "how's" of VB by assisting his "Class" develop and update a "Real World" application. I have purchased, read, and learned from all of John's books on Visual Basic Programming and am looking forward to learning more from his future writings. This book is a must for any one wishing to learn about Object Oriented Programming. What more can I say except experience a true 5 Star author by purchasing one or all of his books, And enjoy watching his students as they learn to program from a Master.
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Summary: Want a solid foundation of VB Objects? Get this book!!
Review: Professor Smiley does it again! I had read his previous book "Learn To Program With Visual Basic" and found his writing style very unique. It was great to find out he wrote one on VB Objects. I'm halfway through the book and he's made VB Objects easy to understand.For those of you who may not have read his other books before, you're reading the book as if you're in a University class setting taking his VB Objects class. Yes, there's alot of dialogue between him and his students (remember, it's a classroom setting) which can get boring at first. What may seem boring is really his way of pounding those concepts into you. He uses his China Shop program from his first book to guide his students into making it object-oriented. The examples really help explain the concepts. I've gotten to the Chapter on Class Modules. This is the only book I've found that explained this concept to me in a way that made sense without so much mumbojumbo. I've been programming for years, wanted to really learn Visual Basic but got tired of the same old reference book style. Other books assume you always have some knowledge level of the subject itself. This one only assumes you've had introductory VB experience NOT Objects. You will find out that if you've used VB before, you've had experience with Objects :-) . I'm using this book in VB Object class at an online learning site(Actually, I was already getting this book after I finished Prof Smiley's first book) and it's working great. If you want a simple way to understand objects, get this book. If you're the type that needs to be 'led by the hand' on Objects, this book is for you.
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Summary: Want a solid foundation of VB Objects? Get this book!!
Review: Professor Smiley does it again! I had read his previous book "Learn To Program With Visual Basic" and found his writing style very unique. It was great to find out he wrote one on VB Objects. I'm halfway through the book and he's made VB Objects easy to understand. For those of you who may not have read his other books before, you're reading the book as if you're in a University class setting taking his VB Objects class. Yes, there's alot of dialogue between him and his students (remember, it's a classroom setting) which can get boring at first. What may seem boring is really his way of pounding those concepts into you. He uses his China Shop program from his first book to guide his students into making it object-oriented. The examples really help explain the concepts. I've gotten to the Chapter on Class Modules. This is the only book I've found that explained this concept to me in a way that made sense without so much mumbojumbo. I've been programming for years, wanted to really learn Visual Basic but got tired of the same old reference book style. Other books assume you always have some knowledge level of the subject itself. This one only assumes you've had introductory VB experience NOT Objects. You will find out that if you've used VB before, you've had experience with Objects :-) . I'm using this book in VB Object class at an online learning site(Actually, I was already getting this book after I finished Prof Smiley's first book) and it's working great. If you want a simple way to understand objects, get this book. If you're the type that needs to be 'led by the hand' on Objects, this book is for you.
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Summary: Want a solid foundation of VB Objects? Get this book!!
Review: Professor Smiley does it again! I had read his previous book "Learn To Program With Visual Basic" and found his writing style very unique. It was great to find out he wrote one on VB Objects. I'm halfway through the book and he's made VB Objects easy to understand. For those of you who may not have read his other books before, you're reading the book as if you're in a University class setting taking his VB Objects class. Yes, there's alot of dialogue between him and his students (remember, it's a classroom setting) which can get boring at first. What may seem boring is really his way of pounding those concepts into you. He uses his China Shop program from his first book to guide his students into making it object-oriented. The examples really help explain the concepts. I've gotten to the Chapter on Class Modules. This is the only book I've found that explained this concept to me in a way that made sense without so much mumbojumbo. I've been programming for years, wanted to really learn Visual Basic but got tired of the same old reference book style. Other books assume you always have some knowledge level of the subject itself. This one only assumes you've had introductory VB experience NOT Objects. You will find out that if you've used VB before, you've had experience with Objects :-) . I'm using this book in VB Object class at an online learning site(Actually, I was already getting this book after I finished Prof Smiley's first book) and it's working great. If you want a simple way to understand objects, get this book. If you're the type that needs to be 'led by the hand' on Objects, this book is for you.
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Summary: John Smiley has done it again
Review: The author has taken a complicated subject and in an unusual way presented a clear pciture of how to program in Visual Basic using objects. Using a classroom situation, he introduces the reader to programming with objects. Using members of the class to ask questions, he answers them often using a couple of different approaches to make the answer to the problem clear. The book is also full of many projects to highlight how to program with objects. I highly recommend this book to the levels of programmers to which it is intended.
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Summary: Wow ! Useful and easy to read
Review: This book is both useful and easy to read. A strange combination in todays world. The topics are covered clearly and concisely. The chapters build upon themselves and continue to reenforce important details. VBA is introduced briefly, with enough real world examples to ease some common problems (report generation and number crunching). I would recommend this to everyone. The basics of VB are not covered but nothing more than a beginners level is required to gain alot from this publication.
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Summary: Learn to Program Visual Basic Objects
Review: This book should be the 3rd or 4th book in a series of books from John Smiley. Start with the "Learn to Program Visual Basic 6" and then follow it up with either "Learn to Program Visual Basic 6.0 Examples" or the "Learn to Program Visual Basic Databases and finally this book. After you have read all 4 books, you will have a solid foundation to building more sophisticated applications. These 4 books by John Smiley help me get a solid knowledge base.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to Objects in Visual Basic
Review: This is a good book for people who would like to start working with objects in Visual Basic. Its more of a interactive course. Each line of code is supported with excellent explanation. If you are a beginner read the whole book, but if are intermediate, you can skip the initial chapters and directly start with chapter "Objects- The inside story". I recommend this book for all those people who are new to object-oriented programming (with Visual Basic)
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Summary: Easy VB objects
Review: This is a painless introduction to object oriented programming with Visual Basic, following in the footsteps of Smiley's other excellent tutorial books on VB programming. It makes the transition to other more advanced OOP books easier. One hopes his series will continue with new VB topics.
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