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Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 4 Now

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This book is not bad. It does come with a working version of Visual Basic 4.0 which makes it a plus to have. However, the book explains the basics of VB and not much else. I learned some from this book, but there is still much more to learn. Not bad for the beginner, but not the best.

This book is/ great for beginners in Visual Basic. The reading is very easy to understand. The sample programs in the book are very simple and to the point. If you can read one of those Teach yourself (VB, Delphi or another language) in 24 days, you can read this book in about 2 hours. I read Learn Visual Basic Now in about 3 days. The book has some weaknesses. One it does over simpfy some VB points.

The great thing about the book, is you can run all the programs on your computer without buying the Visual Basic software because, it comes with its own version of Visual Basic with the source code from the sample programs in the book on 1 CD.

Lastly, chapter 8 "Adding Artwork and Special Effects" was the best chapter in the book.

The beginnig of the book is quite exciting, it even may seem that you will really start to program having read only one book. In the beginning the author uses so detailed and silly explanations up to how to click the mouse! For example, put your hand on the mouse, make it comfortable, then move your forefinger a little bit, push it down and it will be clicked! Ridiculous! However, somewhere in the middle of the book it goes like the programmer passes two variables by reference not by value to the selected procedure; the updated total variable in the subsequent Print method has the price variable that was also updated in an intermediate step in the procedure and don't forget to declare the multidiamensional arrays of course! Make sense? I think the author should have been more consistent. In my opinion he should have kept in mind the readers he was writing for- either 'dummies' or advanced. It is impossible to be good for everyone and as the proverb goes, "You cannot kill two birds with one stone."