Computer Programming Fundamentals with Applications in Visual Basic(R) 6.0

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Summary: My Review
Review: A+++..... A completely satisfactory book for the beginning programmer.

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Summary: This is not a Text book
Review: If you already know Visual Basic then you might find this book useful. If you are just learning then it is not the book for you. Most other VB books do a lot more explaining about the fundamentals than this one does. Some concepts are just presented with almost no explaination where other books I've read take about half of a chapter to this. I think the authors forgot that the simple things are not simple if you don't know them yet.

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Summary: Useless
Review: The worst VB tetxbook I've ever read. What a waste of time and money!

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Summary: Waste
Review: This book was so bad our professor dropped it mid-semester and used power point slides instead. It fails the most in its lack of examples. Some VB functions were completely left out. Example - How to create a Control Array. It is a total waste of money.

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Summary: A methodical approach to Visual Basic 6
Review: This is an unusual book. Clearly intended as a teaching aid, its approach is substantially different than most of the other well done VB books. The authors take a very methodical, step-by-step approach to VB and presume that you are a newcomer. But what they've actually done is to create one of the finest references for BASIC, Visual Basic and programming languages in general. Each element of VB is described in detail with excellent examples. From the IDE to building ActiveX controls. Unlike some VB books, this one doesn't intend to turn the neophyte into an "expert," but rather provides the core knowledge that every programmer should possess. I enjoyed it so much that I'm adding it to my VB collection, despite having a number of other volumes already. This one is just plan handy as a quick reference when I forget - as I suspect we all do from time to time - the basics of BASIC.

Jerry