Customer Reviews

Beginning Visual Basic 5

5 star:		(32)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

No doubt this book has some good stuff in it, but I didn't use it for my core VB learning. I didn't like the flow of the material, and found that I was left stumped at several points. I also found the book not very usefull as a reference if you are trying to find something or refresh your memory. I also found Peter's writing style an inhibitor to my learning experience. It just left me confused sometimes.

I did find some good code examples and used some of the class examples in a project that I was working on. A companion CD is a must for this kind of book, but is not provided.

Overall, this is a good book to have in your VB library, but don't rely on this one alone to learn VB.

I'm in a class which uses this book as it's primary text. We have problems in some of the code exercises. Some of the code in the book just doesn't work and it gets really aggrivating dealing with it. Additionally, features and functions are incorporated without first explaining them to the reader. Overall this is not a very good book to learn from. I personally had to purchase additional materials to better learn the material.

Many errors were not on the publisher's site. If you are going to write a book, please make sure the code works. Try using it! Am I being unreasonable?

This is the perfect book for self-study and for anyone interested in learning vb with little or no programming experience. The author introduces us to the fundamental concepts of vb and hand guide us to implementing useful vb applications without overwhelming readers with too much information at one time. each concept, each section is written with extreme clarity and gently eases readers to the world of vb. by the end of the book, readers are ready to creating powerful vb applications with a solid understanding of the vb language.Beginning Visual Basic 5 is without a doubt, *the* best introductory book to learning vb. you might want to get Core Visual Basic 5 as your second book for more advanced coverage. good luck!

This is a great book for beginners. I found Peter Wright's easy going style of writing to be refreshing. This book covers a bit more ground than most "beginner books" therefore you will gain a solid understanding of the language.

Having only some foundation in Qbasic, I thought this book would set me on the right path quickly, but I was a bit disappointed, especially after Chapter 4. Peter should spend some time upfront defining in plain English concepts such as Methods, Properties, and Procedures so that when a beginner attemps to understand his esoteric solutions, which delve into topics not even yet covered, they won't be totally confused. If you are a BEGINNER, STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK. Since Chapter 4, I decided that I didn't like Peter's teaching style, and so switched to Diane Zak's "Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0", and I have to confess, THIS IS A TRULY A BEGINNERS TEXT that comes highly recommended from leading Universites in the US. Every comment on Diane book is positive and true--see for yourself. And that's the gospel folks. Sorry Peter, but looks like you have to revise your didactic methods some.

I use this book to teach university and ZDU classes and it's one of the best on the market.

The first half of the book is particularly good for beginners, although the Chapter on Classes (chapter 7), sometimes throws students for a loop (pardon the pun).

I should tell you that I wrote the end of chapter questions and answers for the book as well.

I have some errata and exercises for the book posted on my Visual Basic website.

Its a great book. He's gone to a lot of trouble to get his concepts across clearly, and makes the power of visual basic 5 come alive from the pages. He spends time developing the concepts such as objects and classes that VB5 utilises, and goes through an overview of seemingly everything well and in a readable manner. I think you couldn't ask for a better introduction, whether you are a beginner or an intermediate programmer, so if you want to learn VB5, you may as well start here! If you are an advanced programmer I guess you would want to dive straight into some reference manual or something, and this book is not aimed at you! Apparently (according to the epilogue) Peter is currently writing a sequel which goes into more depth about the various development topics of optimising and packaging, advanced database design, etc. I look forward to it. LM

Fast ship, great condition, good communications .. Amazon is super to deal with, never had a problem here ... it's for lots more than books ... thanks

This is a good book to learn VB from, until you get to the Chapter 7 end-of-chapter exercises. They make up a project that the reader is not at all equipped to produce. Wrox should come up with a different set of end-of-chapter exercises and make them downloadable.