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Summary: Ideal programming book
Review: I actually used this book to learn VB6. What happened to great programming books like this one?This book was thorough, and started off at the most basic level. After starting off with the equivalent of a Hello World style program and an intro to Forms, the book quickly took off. The book proceeds to cover all of the basic Windows Controls: listboxes, controlboxes, etc. It goes on to cover SQL database programming, painting/graphics functions, Active X Controls (interfacing and creating them), etc. This book is a 1000 page bible for VB programming. After programming VB for almost 2 years, I still use this book as my first place to turn to. Well organized, and very thorough. I would recommend buying this book today, even though it is out of print. It would be a bargain to buy used (no, mine is not for sale).
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Summary: Good book for beginners!
Review: I got this book from a freind and its like GOLD. Every problem i get into, i just need to open this book and find the answer easy! Its a MUST for every Visual basic Programmer !!!
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Summary: Good learning tool, but errors abound
Review: Intended for people who already have some programming experience, Petroutsos' book is a good way to learn Visual Basic, despite the numerous errors. He takes a learn-by-example approach, and includes a lot of tricks and techniques that would be difficult to pick up from most other books, although I think he does a little overkill on graphics applications. If you already have the basics of VB down Microsoft Press' Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide is a better reference. One thing Petroutsos doesn't cover well is how to create your own class modules. I would really call it a 3 1/2 star book, but probably 4 1/2 if all of the errors were cleaned up. My guess is this book was rushed to press to try to be one of the first VB 5 books published.
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Summary: A strong resource for the intermediate programmer
Review: Mastering Visual Basic 5.0 presents clear and well organized view of Visual Basic 5.0. It proves to be a strong reference resource and if have the patience to slog through it from cover to cover, you'll find yourself well versed in the ins and outs of VB. I searched for a while for a VB book to drag me to the next level of development, this proved to be it.
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Summary: Good for Beginners to Intermediate
Review: Overall I would have to say this is a good book. If you are a beginner or intermediate VB developer, there are a lot of good examples. I still use the book as a reference once in while. The only problem I have with the book it that the author spent too much time on things you can do graphically with VB. This is something that I think most VB developers will never get involved with.
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Summary: Good Resource
Review: This book is a good one for almost any VB Programmer. Its appear chapters in an organized fashion with lots of small groups of chapters that all focus on one important concept. Its index makes it easy to find what your looking for and the appendix is a great resource for little details you don't often need, and as a result they are often forgotten by the time they are needed, but this book makes them easy to relearn. I gave this book a five stars for being a good, technical resource as well as for its content.
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Summary: Good Resource
Review: This book is a good one for almost any VB Programmer. Its appear chapters in an organized fashion with lots of small groups of chapters that all focus on one important concept. Its index makes it easy to find what your looking for and the appendix is a great resource for little details you don't often need, and as a result they are often forgotten by the time they are needed, but this book makes them easy to relearn. I gave this book a five stars for being a good, technical resource as well as for its content.
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