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The Beginner's Guide to Visual Basic 4.0 (Beginner's Guides)

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This review is a little too late because VB4 has long been sent to oblivion by all the developers. But this is really a great book for beginners to learn VB. Very few books touches DAO (of course, it is obsolete nowadays, but sometimes it is still good for building Access frontends).

I think the only thing that VB4 does not serve well is in terms of building user's own classes. But that is somewhat an advanced topic. so if you dont know VB at all, this is still the book to get.

This book does a wonderful job of teaching the essentials of Visual Basic. It does not cover some more advanced topics, but as a beginner's book, it shouldn't! Excellent place to start for VB

This book does what it says it will. It will teach you VB 4. The first two chapters can be skipped if you're familiar with other programming languages but the rest of the chapters are simple great.

The information is conveyed in an easy to use manner and the way it is presented makes it easy for even a computer block head to understand. The "Why not try..." sections are kind of hard but they make you see how you can put to use what you just learned.

This is an excellent book for beginners. It got me going on a language that promised only confusion at first. The "Try It" sections are sometimes advanced , but they are for interesting projects and the search adds to their interest. As he suggests files - rather than databases - are out of fashion - but more on their mechanics would have interested me. BUT well worth the cost

This book starts off very slow and gradually eases the reader into VB4. The book does a great job of explaining the fundamentals of VB4. If you want to know the how and why part of programming this book will defineately answer your questions.

My only complaint is that the book is written much like other programming books and it is rather boring in places. Chapters one and two are also directed at the beginner. So if you have any previous knowledge of this language those two chapters don't teach you anything new.

As promised, the book does provide an overview of most of the Visual Basic elements a beginner might need. However, the book repeats a mistake that the examples shipped with VB 4.0 make: There is no example or discussion of how to write an application that uses multiple forms. A chapter subheading promises this, but it never comes up. All the examples either take place on a single form, or use MDI.