Customer Reviews

Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0

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I read this book after getting what I felt was a pretty good grasp of object oriented programming. By the time I'd gotten it 3/4 read I was completely confused. Since putting it down for a few weeks I've gotten back on track and have become proficient. I respect anyone with the gumption to write a book, but Deb has a way of confusing the simplest issue and her writing style is far from clear. On the positive side, I did glean clarification of some concepts but it was too painful. She should read Mark Warhol's book on The Art of Programming with Visual Basic - there's a writing style that works.

Overall, this book is a good introduction to object oriented design using Visual Basic 5. The examples chosen and their layout and usage in the manual could be improved. I would recommend this book to anyone that has a general understanding of VB, but has yet to utilize objects or classes.

In a very easy and straightforward manner, this book introduces the concepts of Object Oriented Programming and shows how it works in VB5. Deborah Kurata uses the GUIDS methodology, which is simple and very efective in any serious software project. OOP is a BIG time-saver, as it lets you create resusable buildind blocks, that can be compiled and called from any other applications you develop, keeping your code concise and easy to trace.

I am new to Visual Basic and when I went looking for a book on classes, a senior programmer recommended this book and lent me his copy. Realizing how valuable this book is, I quickly ordered my own copy! The book is logically organized, first providing a discussion on the concepts involved in object oriented programming, and then working into detailed discussions on classes, ActiveX Servers, etc. I highly recommend this book to programmers and analysts alike!

A few of these reviews are dead-on. This book is so impractical that it is laughable. Deb Kurata needs to leave the lecture circuit and do some work in the real world. It's just not this simple. Maybe a good grade school book.

Our company chose this book for our in-house course on OOP. I borrowed it from a person who took the course. I had been struggling with classes and objects for a while, knowing all the theory and that I could really use them to make my programming life easier. Deborah shows the how and why of implementing classes and objects in VB5. I can now move on to using them and making life a little - no, a LOT - easier.

If you're an experienced programmer or systems analyst, trying to understand object orientated programing and design with VB 5.0, then this is the book you're looking for. Very well done. This review is coming from a guy with 22 years programming/analysis experience.

I agree with msserf@hotmail.com : the world is a little more complicated than simply wrapping tables in classes. Here you can find some fairly good ideas but analysis are not deepened to a real world level. Databound controls and Recordset.MoveLast in a serious application?

An extremely high-level look at the fundamentals of OO programming. The techniques illustrated are certainly not advised for the serious developer and do not reflect what Microsoft considers as best practices for n-tiered development. The world is a little more complicated than simply wrapping tables in classes and Kurata devotes very little time to discussing when and why certain techniques should be used. The variables that need to be considered when making performance, reusability, encapsulation, scalability, and abstraction decisions simply aren't covered in this book. The VB5 product ships with better docs than this book (Programmer's Guide, Getting Results, etc.). Save yourself some money and stick with them.

The best and most consice technical book I've seen in the past 10 years. A programmers treasure box for all levels of experience, a must have for all. Deborah, thanks for bringing out your knowledge to those of us who can learn from it. Keep up the good work.