Learn to Program with Visual Basic 2010 Express [Paperback]

John Smiley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 9, 2010

An Introductory text on Visual Basic using the freely downloadable Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic.Net class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 476 pages
• Publisher: John Smiley Publishing (June 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982734905
• ISBN-13: 978-0982734902
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 11 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,094,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginner's.., September 10, 2010

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Mike S. (Detroit) - See all my reviews

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Keeping it simple: this has been a great book for me. I tried learning various languages in the past, never could completely grasp everything. A lot of things being discussed in this book make sense now, I suspect due to the way the book was written: as though you are in a college classroom.

The book doesn't go far enough for me though, but I'm also looking at more advanced concepts within VB and programming in general. I suspect that this book is a great first jump into the world of programming. If you've already got programming experience, this is probably not the book for you.

I give it a solid 5 stars, although there is some minor errata throughout the book. None of it affect the overall knowledge learned.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Totally outdated, February 21, 2011

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I recommend reading some of the one-star reviews for Learn to program with Visual Basic 6.0 by the same author. It seems to be basically the same book only based on VB 6. The so-called "real-world program" you are going to work on, is something that might have been considered top-notch in 1990 when Windows 3.0 was standard. You will create a program where data records are updated by text file! As the title says 2010, I was hoping to learn something more current. Given that most programs these days have to work with databases, I am more than surprised not to find anything about DAO in this book, not to mention the more current ADO (ActiveX Data Objects). The fact that the book is written like a novel (including blow-by-blow conversation, i.e. "Please, call me Joe"), has a slightly childish style (Bullina china shop...honestly!!!), and seems to be addressing thoroughly non-technical people (Mr. Bullina does not know what Microsoft Access is, thinks a custom computer program can be had for $500, and the only program Midge, the sales clerk (who is the computer wiz-kid in the china shop), knows, is Notepad. NOTEPAD!!!). Unfortunately I purchased this on Kindle and will not be able to return it now that I have read 8% of the book already.