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Learning to Program with Visual Basic 6.0, 2nd Edition

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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.

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.

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.

We were given this book for my programming class and the author is very long winded on every topic and a lot of times you read the topic and when finished you are more confused than when you started so you end up going to a different book for better understanding.

The code for the projects are broken up into seperate chunks and he doesn't always give you all of the code needed to make the program work or his code is wrong so you spend more time trying to find the problem and get it to work than learning the topic that the code is supposed to teach you.

The index of the book tends to be off the majority of the time so when you need to look something up it will not be on the page that it says it's on. I went to the publisher's website for a page with the error corrections but they only correct a few items and I spotted a ton more in the book that I feel is critical to get the code to work.

If you are really interested in learning Visual Basic 6 I would suggest going for a different book than this, this book is not worth the money.

A book able to explain VB 6 in simple words with simplicity,
I just bought the book for a program (VB 98) dated back to 1998, but a good book from the use I am given to it. All the topics are treated with sense and simplicity, making the language of programming easy. Good for everyone interested to learn the basics of VB 98.

This book takes great pains to offer several different projects for a student to learn from. Unfortunately the main project, which is the most interesting, has several coding errors that hinder the project's ability to run. I found myself spending more time trying to correct the coding errors than learning from the presented material.
This was my first introduction to VB, and the first four chapters were very beneficial. Then I hit a wall, as coding errors prevented me from continuing with the project.
Also, the associated trial software has a few glitches. Most notably, and most annoying, was the fact that the utility allowing a VB project to be saved as an EXE was unavailable, for whatever reason. I registered the product correctly, and was well within the 120 day trial period. This limited my ability to bring the project to work to examine it further.
Finally, the web site for student help listed in the book was unavailable for the entire month of January. I gave up at the end of January.
I do intend to keep this book as a reference tool, and look forward to finding the correct codes to make the entire project work when I learn more about VB. Until then, I will find a different book to utilize.

THE BOOK COVERS A LOT OF STUFF AT ONCE IT SHOULD BE CALLED LEARNING TO PROGRAM THE HARD WAY DONT RECOMMEND FOR BEGINNERS MEABY JUST MEABY FOR ADVANCED PROFESSORS ..SORRY MY OPNION..DONT RECOMMEND IT TO LEARN FROM IT AS FIST VB BOOK AND BY THE WAY THE AUTHOR HAS A LOT OF GREAT BOOKS THE FIRST ONE I THINK WAS BETTER