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Summary: Buy It
Review: I bought this book a year ago after my cousin showed me something about if/then statments. I read this book and I know a ton about it!This book is great for someone like me, who knew nothing about programming!
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Summary: I am an idiot and this book suits me fine
Review: I was scared of .net,liked QBASIC and wanted to learn Visual Basic. I actually picked this book more because of the free software but found the concepts very clearly explained and with a detailed explanation of basics that would keep the beginner interested and induce thinking ahead of the pace of the book.
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Summary: Not suggested for COMPLETE beginners
Review: If you decided that just the sound of the word 'programming' sounds fun and you want to see what it's all about, or if you are just completely new to programming, this book may not be the right one. When I first read this book, I had no previous programming experience whatsoever. At first, the author amused me a bit and convinced me to read on and that it's a piece of cake. One problem with this book, although this is only an introduction, is that it does not provide any exercises to drill the basics into your head. It merely demonstrates the code with several examples, and after that the chapter is over. Even though some examples may be explicit, there is still not enough there to facilitate your remembering of previous chapters. I found myself constantly flipping back when I did not recognize certain code. The other major problem is that the examples that are provided are too complex. Even when he breaks the it down piece by piece, the concept of the code is still hard to grasp. I frequently struggled trying to understand what was happening in the code itself, even after it was explained. I strongly recommend beginners to purchase another book. After you have learned all the basics of the langauge, this book is very helpful for re-enforcing what you already know and finding more advanced ways to approach certain problems.
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Summary: An excellent introduction book to Visual Basic
Review: Please, if you want to learn Visual Basic, buy this with an advanced book. If you have little or no programming experience, this book is ideal. If you do, you will go through it quite quickly having learned all the grounding in a very enjoyable way. He is a talented teacher, and although this particular book is verbose to cater for absolute beginners, it would be interesting to see how he would write an advanced book.
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Summary: will get you going
Review: This book is fun to read, yet it still manages to introduce the most useful tasks in VB. Each of the 26 chapters is short enough to keep you on your toes and long enough to give you a sense of accomplishment at the end. Written not just for people new to VB6 but programming in general. I found the "Programmer's Guide" on the VB6 CDROM too technical but this book was easier to follow. The author throws in lots of jokes to make the new concepts and technical terms more fun to learn. If you've never programmed before and want to make a start, buy this book, which includes a "working model" of VB6 on CD.
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Summary: Basic Introductory book. You learn
Review: This book teaches you the basics and the tools. You're not going to program an ecommerce site or do some heavy duty programming, but you're going to learn the VB tools and the basics. It's a good quickstart that would be complemented by more VB books. It's a quick reference and well written, to the point. As a beginner book, it's a good value for your money.
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Summary: Basic Introductory book. You learn
Review: This book teaches you the basics and the tools. You're not going to program an ecommerce site or do some heavy duty programming, but you're going to learn the VB tools and the basics. It's a good quickstart that would be complemented by more VB books. It's a quick reference and well written, to the point. As a beginner book, it's a good value for your money.
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Summary: Simply an Excellent book
Review: This is a great book for beginners as well as programmers with some experience. The book is easy to understand, contains almost no typos and the code examples are very reliable in terms of not containing errors. More knowledgeable programmers can spice up the sample code with more functionality, and even beginners can too as they progress through out the book. Since the code examples are unrealistically easy, juicing up the code helps one mirror more real world situations to some extent. One small draw back, and an example of juicing up the code, is that the book does not cover the With/ End With construct, which comes in handy in many of the examples. After reading this book the programmer can move on to more advanced books. Happy Visual Basic 6 programming!
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