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Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6

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I am a script programmer for a software company that writes voice processing software for the financial industry.

I just purchased this book today and must say that I am very impressed with it. I showed it to one of our web developers who is C++ and he was equally impressed. The format is easy to follow and the writer certainly knows the industry. I was impressed with the direct approach since I am a "Learn By Doing" individual. I am confident that after following the lesson plans I will be in a much better position to target a better programming position.

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This book is not for beginners. The computer terminology seems to advanced for beginners, but the beginner must decide that. The beginner should read pages 5-8 before buying this book as their introduction of VB.

The screen shots are helpful, but sometimes they do not match the text descriptions step-by-step. However, I like this book for its breadth of coverage from: Deployment, Internet Applications, OLE, Images, Multimedia, the good old get/put file operations, and more than 1000 screen shots.

As another reviewer has said, the coverage is not 100% complete, therefore I would not recommend it for beginners, but to get an overview and use for particular programming techniques in BASIC, I would still recommend the book. Also buy Harold Davis' VB6 Book for a better step-by-step approach.

I have 4 VB6 books and the Hartman book I use as much as any. The MDI ( Multiple documents with the same parent form ) coverage was confusing to me and wasted pages on an example to show that MDI forms can't directly hold buttons and other data input controls.

I have read dozens of books on programming languages and tools and this is the worst that I have ever used. The book is very hard to follow, the examples are incomplete and require significant additional research to completed. I would not recommend this book to a beginner, they will become very frustrated.

This book did not give enough instructions to complete the projects. Every time I tried to do one of the projects, I had to go to an experienced VB programmer to see what was missing. The programmer confirms that it is not ME!! He says that there is no way the projects could work if you follow the instructions the way they are written in the book. There were always key parts left out.

This is a great book for the intermediate to the advanced beginner. There are a lot of programs included and the
diagrams super helpful. The wide range of topics covered and the numerous links to great sites alone, made this a buy for me. I would suggest, for the absolute beginner (no previous programming
skills) to start off with an easier "VB for Dummies" type book, and then go for Patricia Hartman's.

If you want to learn visual basic 6 then this book is what you need. It explains everything you need to know about programing and writing code. If I were you i would go buy this book right now.