Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming With Visual Basic

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Summary: Light Refreshing Introduction without Business Examples
Review: I must admit I really liked this book. It is light even delightfull and refreshing. For a non business but more technical person the problem domain of the examples (students taking courses at a university) was a much awaited change.

So why 3 and not 4 or 5 stars. The book has one error, inaccuracies and the examples have lots of style problems. Yes I know the author took the shortcuts in the examples deliberately, but it still produces bad examples. Naming of methods should not repeat the names of the classes. One can read programs a lot better when they are indented... Still I like this book much more than the truly 4 star Deborah Kurata book. It is a great first introduction. For the more serious reader I still recommend Applemans VB Components book, Pattisons VB COM book and for a more general introduction Cornell,Jezaks Core VB.

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Summary: Concise, well written OO basics book
Review: I needed to learn OO techniques within VB very quickly for my MSc Project. After experiencing a few mishaps with other verbose books (dealing with example case studies of company practises and other such un-necessary diatribe) this is the book I'd recommend. If you're familiar with OO techniques and simply require information on how to employ them within VB then so much the better - this is the best book for that. If however you're learning OO for the first time, Romans examples and explanation are good but better basic OO teaching sections can be found elsewhere. Overall then, a concise well written book for the VB OO beginner.

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Summary: Light Refreshing Introduction without Business Examples
Review: In this age of bloated 700-page computer books, Steven Roman's book is refreshingly concise. However, I was disappointed in the non-standard object-oriented terminology, definitions, and notation. The industry is quite consistent in its use of object-oriented terms, but their use in this book led me to question whether the author has had any significant object-oriented exposure outside of Visual Basic. It is exciting to see Visual Basic 5.0 breaking into object-oriented programming, albeit in a somewhat off-beat fashion. However, learning to think in a truly object-oriented way is tricky enough. A book purporting to present "Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic" should not be filled with such inconsistent, ambiguous, and misleading use of standard terms.

In all fairness, Steven Roman makes many excellent points about practical applications of object-oriented concepts, both pro and con. However, I would only recommend this book to someone who already has a very strong object-oriented foundation (and probably wouldn't benefit from the book other than applying Visual Basic in an object-oriented way).

I would recommend, instead, Deborah Kurata's verbose but otherwise excellent "Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0".

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Summary: Object - Oriented Programming
Review: This book was hardly usefull to me.Firstly, most of the examples doesn't work out the way it is suppose to be.Secondly, Visual Basic 6 doesn't support some of the functions for example when you create a new class i was adding a new student to the CStudent class.(objStudent.Collection.Add objStudent)The Collection class has a single build-in (read-only) property called Count that returns the number of objectsin the class.The build-in methodsof the Collection class are Add, Remove and Item.P.55 from the first paragraph.I would like to know by the time the Autor was writing the book, what version of Visual Basic what he using???