Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Advanced (Paperback)

by Richard Johnson (Author), Diane Zak (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Advanced is designed for a second course in Visual Basic 2005. Authors Richard Johnson and Diane Zak employ a readable, approachable, and enjoyable way of learning advanced programming topics, picking up where Diane Zak left off with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: RELOADED, Second Edition. RELOADED, Advanced provides an extensive review of material in the first book, allowing users to brush up on their Visual Basic skills.

About the Author
Richard A. Johnson is Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Missouri State University. Richard has taught Management Information Systems, Operating Systems, Networking, Visual Basic and Java programming, and Web application development for the past ten years. Richard is also the author of Java Programming and Object-Oriented Application Development also published by Thomson Course Technology.

Diane Zak holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems, a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, and a Master of Arts degree in Adult and Continuing Education. She has taught at various computer training centers and was most recently a Professor at College of DuPage in Illinois. She has written numerous books for Course Technology, including an Introduction to Programming with C++; Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic; Microsoft Visual Basic: RELOADED; Microsoft Visual Basic: RELOADED, Advanced; CGI/Perl; and Visual Basic for Applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition (December 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418836435
• ISBN-13: 978-1418836436
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #498,594 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible programming practices taught, June 5, 2008

By	David Gancarz - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a systems development manager with 30 years programming experience. An acquaintance is taking a beginning VB programming course, using this text, and has asked me to review some of his assignments. I was dismayed to see an example of a Circle Class presented in this book in which a Radius property has public getters and setters and the abstract parent class has a public Area property getter. In the constructor for the Circle class, radius is a required argument. On instantiation, Area is immediately calculated and stored as part of the class instance. The Circle class also allows the radius to be modified but area is only calculated on instantiation. Therefore, a consumer of this class, without prior knowledge of this very odd design, could easily change the radius then ask for the area. They would receive the area based on the radius at initial instantiation, not the correct area based on the modified radius!

With all due respect to the authors, this is terrible programming and has no place in a textbook. It teaches bad programming to students that will eventually enter the workforce. It does them and their eventual employers a disservice.

It would have been valuable for the authors to follow up this example code with a critique and point out its flaws to readers; however, I saw no such follow-up. I would not recommend this text for a programming class.

1.0 out of 5 stars not very usefull, June 16, 2009

By	Vong Chau - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm new to programming and find this book to be very difficult. the author are not good at explaining class and overload method; leave you hang at lot of thing. also,the author have a tendency to say like we will be talking this subject in chapter 3 in more detail and when we get to chapter 3, the author say as you have learn in chapter 1... and you are like what the hey. This book is not very helpful as you will see in chapter 7. the author does not know much about access and sql. Using access, the author does not give example on how to retrieve data from the database. THIS BOOK IS LOADED WITH TEXT TO PRODUCE FRUSTRATION!!! if you are a student like me then i'm sorry that you purchase this book. if you are independent learner find another book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Book, March 4, 2009

By	J. Perez - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

have used it for half a semester now and I'm happy. It's easy to use and has advanced stuff.