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Summary: Introduction To Computer Programming with Visual Basic 6
Review: As the title suggests, this is a book that stresses (really) programming and programming logic for beginning programmers. Though the book was written as a classroom textbook, I have really developed a clearer understanding of Visual Basic programming through self-study following the examples and exercises (hey authors, how about providing answers to the coding exercises at the end of each chapter for non-students like me?). It was painstakingly written and explained, stressing programming examples with each topic introduced. In addition, at the end of each chapter, code and screen shots are provided for a composite programming example covering the topics of the chapter. I cannot stress enough that this book is excellently written and a great choice for the beginning programmer in understanding the core of Visual Basic programming. Good work, and thanks!
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Summary: Introduction To Computer Programming with Visual Basic 6
Review: As the title suggests, this is a book that stresses (really) programming and programming logic for beginning programmers. Though the book was written as a classroom textbook, I have really developed a clearer understanding of Visual Basic programming through self-study following the examples and exercises (hey authors, how about providing answers to the coding exercises at the end of each chapter for non-students like me?). It was painstakingly written and explained, stressing programming examples with each topic introduced. In addition, at the end of each chapter, code and screen shots are provided for a composite programming example covering the topics of the chapter. I cannot stress enough that this book is excellently written and a great choice for the beginning programmer in understanding the core of Visual Basic programming. Good work, and thanks!
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Summary: Using this book as a textbook for a 2 quarter course
Review: I have been in the teaching profession for over 30 years! Currently, I teach COP 2172 Visual Basic, and COP 3170 Advanced Visual Basic: a two quarter course sequence at Florida Metropolitan University and have used this as a textbook. The presentation style of the authors of this book is excellent. They use the theory introduced in each chapter in a large number of worked out examples and programming projects in each chapter. Then each chapter ends with a good selection of programming exercises as well as programming projects. The book also provides a CD-ROM containing all the worked out examples and projects of the book and the publisher usually supplies another CD-ROM to instructors that also contains the solutions to the exercises and projects appearing at the end of each chapter. I found all this material to be excellent instructional tools. If you wish to view the qualifications of this reviewer to judge the validity of his review, feel free to visit:....
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Summary: Using this book as a textbook for a 2 quarter course
Review: I have been in the teaching profession for over 30 years! Currently, I teach COP 2172 Visual Basic, and COP 3170 Advanced Visual Basic: a two quarter course sequence at Florida Metropolitan University and have used this as a textbook. The presentation style of the authors of this book is excellent. They use the theory introduced in each chapter in a large number of worked out examples and programming projects in each chapter. Then each chapter ends with a good selection of programming exercises as well as programming projects. The book also provides a CD-ROM containing all the worked out examples and projects of the book and the publisher usually supplies another CD-ROM to instructors that also contains the solutions to the exercises and projects appearing at the end of each chapter. I found all this material to be excellent instructional tools. If you wish to view the qualifications of this reviewer to judge the validity of his review, feel free to visit:....
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Summary: Excellent Balance between Theory and Practice
Review: I'm using this book to teach an introduction to computer programming using Visual Basic. (I also have 20 years practical experience in information systems.) I selected this book over several others because of its clear presentation of topics balanced with excellent suggestions for writing good program code.
For example:
* always use OPTION EXPLICIT
* specify BYREF or BYVAL when passing variables The textbook is chuck full of practical programming advise which applies not only to Visual Basic, but other programming languages as well (example - see the section on data validation).
At the end of each chapter the authors do a case study which not only illustrates the concepts introduced in that chapter, but applies a mini-development methodology: Analyze the problem; Design the interface (GUI); Design the logic; Code and test the programs; and document the program / project.
The program code provided with the textbook runs cleanly.
In some places, the text could use additional examples to illustrate ideas. It could also introduce ADO as the database access method. But these are minor issues that could be addressed in a second edition. It's my hope that the authors consider doing a comparable textbook for the new VB.Net language.
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Summary: Warning!
Review: This book does NOT teach object based event driven programming of VB6. This book teaches code based 1960's structured programming in a VB5 environment. Unfortunately the authors do not know VB6 code. This book is a VB6 desert.
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Summary: Warning!
Review: This book does NOT teach object based event driven programming of VB6. This book teaches code based 1960's structured programming in a VB5 environment. Unfortunately the authors do not know VB6 code. This book is a VB6 desert.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: This is one of the best textbook for Visual Basic 6 programming, for MIS students or professionals. It is easy to follow and designed for self-starters. The reference materials in the Appendix A-C are very handy and useful. I have used this book for my introduction to Visual Basic, at a few colleges.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: This is one of the best textbook for Visual Basic 6 programming, for MIS students or professionals. It is easy to follow and designed for self-starters. The reference materials in the Appendix A-C are very handy and useful. I have used this book for my introduction to Visual Basic, at a few colleges.
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