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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days: Complete Compiler Edition

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Look, if you happen to come across this book don't let the version of Visual Basic (5) fool you. This book actually kept me from giving up on programming altogether. I first picked up another Sams Teach Yourself Vb in 21 days and wanted to throw it away, someone recommended this one and I truly am thankful to the Gurewich brothers for writing it. Do yourself a favor and begin your journey in Visual Basic with this book.

This is an excellent starting place. The Teach Yourself series actually does what it claims (the Teach Yourself Visual Basic for Applications book is also a great companion to this one).

Really gets you into the application. If you are like me, though you will get excited and get on tangents within a couple of chapters. I have used this book now for about 1 year (got through everything in about 2 weeks) and still find uses for examples.

I couldn't put this book down! It's filled with examples and source code, easy to read and learn. It makes you want to learn more and more each day.

I HAVE NEVER HAD ANY PROGRAMMING EXPERIANCE BEFORE THIS BOOK AND WITHIN 2-3 DAYS I COULD WRIGHT MY OWN SMALL PROGRAMMS, THE WAY ITS SET UP YOU CANT GET LOST ITS SO STRAIGHT FORWARD NON OF THIS MUMBO JUMBO THAT YOU NEED A DEGREE JUST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THERE SAYING NO I RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY ONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN VISUAL BASIC AND BELIEVE ME IT IS POSSIBLE TO LEARN A LOT IN 21 DAYS, I HAVE BEEN LEARNING VISUAL BASIC FOR A YEAR NOW AND I STILL GO BACK TO PICK UP THINGS.

My selection shows the depth I use in choosing Items in my library, fine for furture upgrading my soft skills.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Happe New Year!

I'm writing reviews of books i read years ago and i fondly remember the late nights listening to music and reading this book. It was my first real programming book and I learned a lot of basic concepts from it that i still use even though now I use C++ and wxWidgets/SDL. It also taught me the that I didn't want to be locked in to just writing for one platform ;-)

I don't know how to program, and I want to know if this book will help me how to program. I have visual basic 5. if anyone can help me, if this book will teach me how to program from the beginning