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Now with Patrick McKeown and Craig Piercy's new Second Edition, you'll not only discover how to write code with this exciting and powerful language, you'll also gain a fundamental understanding of traditional programming logic, concepts, and techniques. This unique approach enables you to take the programming skills you've learned and apply them to other computer languages.
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Craig A. Piercy is a Terry Teaching Fellow in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Georgia and has previously taught at Towson University. He received a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering at Tennessee Tech and a Masters of Business Administration at the University of Georgia. He is completing his Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Georgia. Craig has instructional experience in several areas including Visual Basic. While having worked on various books-related projects, this is his first book as co-author.
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No knowledge required; lots of understanding gained,
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This review is from: Learning to Program with Visual Basic (Paperback)
Without any knowledge of programming whatsoever, the reader learns the main programming aims (input, storage, evaluation, repetition, comparison/selection, and output) using Visual Basic as an example paradigm.A lot of hands-on exercises are provided throughout. A complete application is gradually developed through all the chapters, together with smaller applications which illustrate specific points. While the editing of the book leaves something to be desired (e.g., incomplete sentences, punctuation errors, occasional code inaccuracies), this is a very worthwhile book indeed. I highly recommend it for the author's lack of assumptions and obvious understanding of the beginner's needs.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Learning to Program with Visual Basic,
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This review is from: Learning to Program with Visual Basic 6.0, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
I had to buy this book for a class and frankly it is not a good book. Lots of code errors that make it confusing. Every one of my classmates complained about the book. The professor eventually told us to not use the book and he gave handouts he had written instead.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of information, but frustrating,
This review is from: Learning to Program with Visual Basic 6.0, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book probably throws more information at you, page for page, than any other Visual Basic book I've seen. It covers everything from programming basics and general theory, all the way up to programming with databases. In that regard, it's an ideal book for the novice who wishes to explore deeper.Unfortunately, what keeps this from being a truly great textbook is some really sloppy editing. Explanations of concepts and tools are thorough to a fault, but they are just way too verbose. Here, a long explanation is used where a short one would have sufficed. And most inexcusably, I have found numerous errors in the project code that is included. I made it a challenge to myself to find out why the code was wrong and correct it, but not everyone has a learning style that allows them to benefit from this. Apparently, some of these problems are corrected in a third edition of the book that is forthcoming. Until that time, proceed with caution.
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