Peter Norton's Guide to Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95 [Paperback]

Peter Norton (Author), Harold Davis (Author), Phyllis Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995 | Series: Peter Norton

This guide teaches readers how to use Visual Basic to create powerful applications, without all the technical jargon.
-- Provides a hands-on overview of the entire programming environment
-- Explores advanced topics, such as linking to C and Windows directly, creating custom controls, and connecting to other Windows applications
-- Covers dialog boxes, buttons, a mouse-driven paint program, and advanced data handling
-- Provides a hands-on overview of the programming environment

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This guide teaches readers how to use Visual Basic to create powerful applications, without all the technical jargon. - Provides a hands-on overview of the entire programming environment

- Explores advanced topics, such as linking to C and Windows directly, creating custom controls, and connecting to other Windows applications

- Covers dialog boxes, buttons, a mouse-driven paint program, and advanced data handling

Product Details

• Paperback: 918 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing; 4 Sub edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672306158
• ISBN-13: 978-0672306150
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,495,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Succint Coverage of VB, May 9, 2000

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johare4 (Santa Fe, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95 (Paperback)

Amazon's author listing is not right: the authors listed inside the book are Peter Norton, Harold Davis and Phyllis Davis. The Norton book on each VB version has a different set of authors, so it is not clear that the same quality always applies.

A great deal of VB has to do with Forms and Controls, which are discussed but are not my point of view. I like this book because of Chapter 4: Programming in VB. This chapter gives a very concise and clear summary of all the language features under the rubric "What's still BASIC in Visual Basic?" Chapter 4 also includes class modules, and some more details are given later in Chapter 14 in an example that controls Excel from VB. I also appreciated Chapter 12: Error-Handling and Debugging, which explains both coding with the On Error feature of VB, as well as the use of the VB debugging tools.

These items comprise about 1/10th of the book. But because of its age I found this book for much less than its original price, which made the book worthwhile even so.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great buy available, May 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95 (Paperback)

I found this book...and the discussion of error trapping isgreat, better than I've found elsewhere.

4.0 out of 5 stars The book is good for studying with instructor, November 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95 (Paperback)

I would recommend this book for studying with instructor, not by yourself. It introduces some of the concepts in a rather quick manner without giving you the in-depth introduction to the topic. I taught couple of people VB and I find that Norton's is very helpful for the students, but as I have mentioned, you need instructor's guidance with it.