Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 for Windows, Mobile, Web, Office, and Database Applications: Comprehensive teaches students the essentials of computer programming using the latest Visual Basic programming language, Visual Basic 2008. Twelve chapters and four appendices cover topics such as designing a Visual Basic user interface, creating a windows application, variables and arithmetic operations, mobile applications using decision structures, loop structures, Visual Studio tools for Office applications, arrays, function procedures and exception handling, incorporating databases with ADO.NET 3.5, creating classes, and cell phone applications and Web services. Written in a straight-forward style with the innovative Guided Program Development section in each chapter, this text makes it easy for any novice programmer to understand the core capabilities and fundamental skills and techniques for Visual Basic 2008.
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Gary B. Shelly wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. To date, more than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman Series' textbooks have been sold. Gary and a talented group of contributing authors have produced books on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software, that are the leading textbooks in the computer technology market today. For the past 34 years, Gary has hosted the annual Shelly Cashman Institute, a week-long training event focusing on the latest topics in technology.
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Normally, Shelley-Cashman books are very good and very trustworthy. This book, although it does contain some very good information, is filled with lots of mistakes. I realize this is a first edition so some errors such as typos are expected.
Up until chapter 7 the book is very good. You can tell, beginning with ch. 7, that the style of writing changes and a lot of the step-by-step information is wrong. I think either this was simply copied from another book or it was the work of another writer with little writing experience. Also, some of the info is outdated. The chapter dealing with writing apps for smartphones keeps mentioning PocketPC and Windows CE. To my understanding, Windows Mobile replaced both several years ago. As for the projects, the steps to create forms could have been made a lot easier to understand. It is written in paragraph style. Instead, chart-style would have been easier for the student to understand. There are some lessons that seem to be out of order. In my opinion, the aforementioned chapters (7 deals with web apps and 12 (I think it is) deals with mobile apps) are out of place. By that, I mean they should have been placed at the end of the book instead of between chapters. The book takes you through forms and databases then suddenly it starts talking about web apps. Yes, I know web apps include databases, but the book should have talked about stand-alone apps in their entirety (as it relates to this course) then showed the neat stuff about web and mobile apps at the end to whet the student's appetite for more to encourage further learning of VB. I am sure the author knows her stuff and really meant to do a good job with this book. But being a first edition, they really need to thoroughly review it and make corrections and changes with the student in mind. At this point, I don't know for sure if I would recommend this as a must have book. If the problems were corrected in the next edition, I would very likely say yes to it.
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It is a good book, but it splits the chapters in 2 parts so far. I am just in Ch5 now. It is allright but you have to go back and fourth inCh.
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Very good instruction,
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This is an excellent example of what a programming book should be. The chapter took you through step by step instruction on a program. The end of the chapter problems were easy to follow and if unsure about what to do the answer was easily found in earlier chapters. Very satisfied with this book.
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Cengage Learning, All Rights Reserved, Windows Form, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Private Sub, End Sub, Standard Room, Select Case, Select Room, End Function, Public Class, Student Name, Digital Downloads, Deluxe Room, Program Name, Solution Explorer, Save Data, End Class, Number of Units, Incorporating Databases, Calculate Cost, Corinne Hoisington, New Project, End Select Browse Sample Pages:
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