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Programming In Visual Basic Version 5.0
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Author: Julia Case Bradley, Anita C. Millspaugh
List Price: $48.12
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ISBN: 0256259410
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin (16 September, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 171,252
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Great book for beginners
Although I have some experience in the computer field (I am an IS student), this was the very first book I've ever studied Visual Basic from. I must say that it explains a broad variety of topics in a very easy-to-comprehend fashion. I was only somewhat disappointed that OLE and ActiveX were barely covered.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A Good Book for Beginners
As a beginner to Visual Basic, I thought that the book was pretty good. I think it covers most of the basics and does a fairly decent job of laying out the information needed to move on to more advanced features. If you are a quick learner, this book will go fast, and you will soon need more advanced materials. Having said that, I think the book is a bit pricey for the user who has some sort of an idea concerning programing, otherwise, it is worth the money.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Pretty good for beginners
There are lots of books out there that are just written like references or Help books. That's not the way to learn programming. Programming books should be written like math books, with progressive exercises you can do with test data to make sure you're getting the right answers. This book is one of the minority of books written that way. BTW, "A reader from denver, colorado; AWFUL", you're just wrong. I have gone through this entire book from front to back. I did all the Hands-On Examples and nearly all the Exercises and Case Study problems, all entirely on my own at home, and they all ran just fine for me. And no, I'm not an experienced programmer. In fact, I'm a Sales Rep. It's true that the book has typos and just skims the surface of some important topics like database programming, graphics, ActiveX, OLE and DLLs. It's also true that it leaves out a few things that are really good to know, like the directory box. But this just supposed to be an introduction to the fundamentals. To really be a VB progammer, you need to study a lot more than just this, including SQL, OCX, etc. If you read each chapter really carefully, you should have no trouble whatever doing the Hands-On examples on your own without checking the code at all. If you can get through this book, you will be ready for an intermediate course. I'd be interested in anybody's recommendations for books that are written like this one, i.e., like a math textbook (IMHO, the way ALL computer programming books should be written!)
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