Practical Visual Basic 6 takes a straight forward, no-nonsense approach to teaching Visual Basic programming. The book is broken into five sections. You begin by learning the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming and how to work within the programming environment. You then move on to general programming fundamentals and using those concepts and techniques in the real world. The final sections of the book move you on to database programming and advanced concepts such as making reports, using the data control, and debugging your applications.
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Practical Visual Basic 6 takes a straight forward, no-nonsense approach to teaching Visual Basic programming. The book is broken into five sections. You begin by learning the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming and how to work within the programming environment. You then move on to general programming fundamentals and using those concepts and techniques in the real world. The final sections of the book move you on to database programming and advanced concepts such as making reports, using the data control, and debugging your applications.
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Bob Reselman – is a senior software engineer at Gateway 2000, where he¿s involved with designing platform architecture. Bob also teaches object-oriented programming with Visual Basic at Western Iowa Technical Community College. He has been programming with Visual Basic since version 1.0.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT VALUE!,
By Franco (Virginia Beach) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Practical Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)
I have a shelf full of books on Visual Basic. Many of them are over-priced thousand page monsters that simply collect dust because the information I need is too hard to find. This book is not only a great value at a reasonable price, it is also a useful reference for a beginning to intermediate level programmer. I can easily find the information I am looking for. The steps are spelled out clearly and code examples are provided as well. This book would be a worthy addition to anyones Visual Basic library. I highly recommend it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Beginners, stay clear of this book...,
By Joe (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Practical Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)
This is strictly a book for beginners, as it covers only the rudimentary concepts of visual basic. You'd benefit from it if you've never written a line of code in your life. Even for total greenhorn, it's very tedious to read page after page about addition/subtraction/multiplication/division operations. The greatest problem with this book, as with many, many other programming books, is that the authors just throw large chunks of code at you without bothering to explain why or how they work. For instance, on page 138 of the paperback edition, the author would write "Exit Sub" on line 44, without telling you why you would want to do that at that point. You WON'T find it explained in its context in the entire book. For beginners (as this book is obviously targetting at), this is plain bad practice. You'd have very many "whys" knocking around in your head, and you'd be left hopelessly lost. You'd even begin to doubt yourself, and think it's your fault, which of course it isn't. It's just bad writing. In addition, in some cases, the authors seem to hate using the properties window, and wouldn't tell you that it may be much easier to use the properties window (for design-time properties)than writing laborious codes. The MoveIt example at page 98 illustrates my point. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it to beginners, even though this book is written with beginners in mind. It'd put you off using visual basic, maybe forever. Try another book. There're many good ones lying around.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best intoductory book for VB6,
By A Customer
This review is from: Practical Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)
You've just bought VB6 so now what? Practical Visual Basic 6 that's what. It is cheaper than other books and covers usefull topics in depth, rather than try to gloss over everything. It has a language reference section which is a good thing for a begginer, and it has a CD with all the code examples - saves time typing - also includes working model VB6. A clear choice all round.
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