Microsoft Visual Basic 6: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman Series) [Paperback]

Gary B. Shelly (Author), Thomas J. Cashman (Author), Michael Mick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078954654X | ISBN-13: 978-0789546548 | Publication Date: April 8, 1999 | Edition: 1

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear, step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Readers will work through practical problems to learn the fundamentals of Windows and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.

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About the Author

Gary Shelly Gary Shelly, together with co-author Tom Cashman, wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. Since then, more than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman textbooks have been sold. In recent years, Gary, Tom, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. Thomas J. Cashman Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. In 1960, he established one of the first business data processing programs in the United States at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head from 1960 to 1966. In 1969, he began collaborating with Gary Shelly. Since that time, Cashman, Shelly, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced more than 186 leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. He has also taught summer institutes for teachers at the University of Central Oklahoma, Memphis State University, and Purdue University. The Shelly Cashman Series Thirty-five years ago, computer educator Tom Cashman collaborated with Gary Shelly, one of his programming students, on their first book: IBM System/360 Assembler Language, published by Anaheim Publishing Company. With the success of this book, they formed a writing partnership that has endured to this day. Shelly and Cashman soon became the best-selling authors in computer and computer programming education. In 1980, they published the first ever full-color Introduction to Computers text. Not only did they sell 1.8 million copies of this edition, they changed the face of the Introductory computer course forever. Today, the Shelly Cashman Series books, published by Course Technology, are used by thousands of educators and millions of students, all around the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition (April 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078954654X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789546548
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #707,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title, August 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 6: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman Series) (Paperback)

I teach Advanced Visual Basic. I inherited students who took the prerequisite course, Visual Basic from instructors who used this book. All the students I got in Advanced Visual Basic had absolutely no idea about programming. All they could do was draw good looking forms with some controls on them and copy the code from Shelly and Cashman book. It does not provide challenging, unsolved programming projects for the students. All the students learn is to copy its forms and its code. Whatever this book is, it cannot serve as a good textbook!

For my Advanced Visual Basic, I use Chapters 7 through 12 and appendices of "Computer Programming with Visual Basic 6: A Problem-Solving Approach with Cdrom" by Alka R. Harriger,Susan K. Lisack,John K. Gotwals / Paperback / Prentice Hall, and I like it very much. Frankly, Chapters 1-6 of the Harriger et al book would be much better for the first course!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good for gving you false confidence., August 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 6: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman Series) (Paperback)

First there'e the misleading title - COMPLETE CONCEPTS & TECHNIQUES
Once I went through this book, I found it very easy & thought I was really a PRO in VB6.
I got a rude shock when I actually met my programming friends: If you think you are a pro and can create useful applications with this book, you cannot be more WRONG. This book teaches you nothing about VB6 language. All it does is teaching you to layout a nice form & some extremely elementary code.
I personally do not think you can create anything useful based on the knowledge from this book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for a course I took in college, March 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 6: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman Series) (Paperback)

This book was extremely useful to me in and out of my Visual Basic class. I used it for an intro to programming class in which I found it very easy to use. The book went step by step with pictures that basically spelled out exactly how I needed to do each task. The best thing about this book is that it brings you from the basic levels of VB to the more advanced topics. Now, as I go into my more advanced programming courses, I use this book as a reference. It is ideal if you want to learn VB on your own, and as a text book I give an A+. I recommend this to the beginner to intermediate programmer.