Customer Reviews

Animation Magic with Visual Basic 5, with CD

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This is the MOST terrible book I've ever bought in my life. I don't have many VB books, but I have a total of 8 VB books.

I bought this book thinking I could learn something with it, but nooooooooo... it just contain a stupid sprite.dll that does all the work. So what are we suppose to learn?

This guy is just showing off what he can do with VB and makes you pay for it. He's nothing but a LOUSY teacher, he definitely sucks, I'll never ever buy any books from this author anymore.

I STRONGLY oppose to this book, don't even think of buy it, if not you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

This book tries to be everything to everybody and ends up being nothing to anybody. Despite its claim, you can not learn to program from this book. If you have very little programming experience, you will find this book very confusing. If you know a lot of progeamming then you will probably be annoyed by the lack of details and the time spent on easy topics. The only redeeming value of this book is that it may give you a few creative ideas that you can develop on your own or with better books.

I was really excited when I bought this book,thinking I wasactually going to learn some cool stuff. As it turned out mostexamples didn't work and you had to run your computer in 256 colors. I contacted the author for a refund but he never responded - I would have returned it to the book store, but I opened that useless CD. Don't waste your money!

This is the book they were talking about when they said "You can't judge a book by it's cover"! I was surprised that a book of such poor quality would be published by such a well known publisher. This book was a rough draft of something that could have ended up being helpful, but must have been rushed to print.

not exactly a step by step type manual...many of the screen shots appear to be from older versions of vb and this is supposed to be a ver 5 book...book is supposed to be for beginners to advanced level...however with the poor structure of this book i dont see how either could accomplish anything...

I bought this book to learn how to write animation in VB5. A reasonable assumption from the title. The book not only does not do it, but it doesn't even attempt to do it. What the book should be teaching is hidden in a DLL that accompanies the book. So one learns nothing. Even the DLL is amateurish (it causes GPFs for one thing). As an experienced programmer of 36 years I have read hundreds of computer books. This one is close to the worst one I have ever read. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

Half a year ago, I thought this was a good book. Today, I believe it is a really, really, bad, waste-of-money, pathetic un-useful book. I mean, even those free web sites written by nobody are better than it. If you want to learn VB animation, go to Yahoo and search for it. You will find something you like. Trust me.

Most books do reuse the source code and usually isnt that good on source code. source codes is best way to learn programming. you want better source codes? search the www site there is LOTS of good codes out there! please check out for source code of what you want before you buy a ocx because some greedy programmers often take a sample codes and make a ocx out of them. good example is taskicon ocx there is lots of example in source code and there is some ocxs that do same for 40 bucks. which you prefer? free or 40 bucks?

Rolf

I got this book at a store, and although it had some pretty neat looking things in it, it didn't turn out to be all that good. First off, they didn't even teach you code, they just tell you to add some ocx to your program. Secondly, the ocx was messed up!! Also, when they got to the 3D programming part, you had to include into your program something that was written in C++. I was really hoping to learn something from this book, but unfortunately I didn't.

This book isn't what I expected! Not at all! The cover looks nice, but unless you are more in the advanced stage of VB programming, you won't get this. Most of this book assumes you know everything, and is just showing you how to do stuff. All it helped me to understand was how animation works, but not how to programming