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Visual Basic 6 Programming Blue Book: The Most Complete, Hands-On Resource for Writing Programs with Microsoft Visual Basic 6!

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This book is an outstanding introduction to Visual Basic. Itis designed for someone who is already familiar with some programmingskills but no knowledge of Microsoft's Visual Basic environment. The lessons progress rapidly and are taught with easy to follow programming examples that demonstrate the concepts well. Useful topics are discussed, including Active X programming, OLE, ADO, DDE, and database programming with VB. This is an all-around primer to the language that won't bore you.

This book is far better than most of its direct competitors.

The good features of this book, rarely seen in other books, are: readable, lively, humour-laced, intelligent writing style; almost complete lack of technical errors and contentious statements (that is very rare in IT-related books); mostly-interesting and realistic problems are tackled as examples; concise and useful demonstration of error handling; good guidance on using the debugging tools; just-right discussion of Windows as an event-driven, object-oriented environment and how you need to think as a VB developer.

Amongst other features: it has good range in technical content from beginner to intermediate; it flows well from topic to topic; it covers the basics of the VB development environment; VB structures, keywords and how to use them; object-orientation theory Lite; good contents and index sections; reasonably consistent use of object/variable naming schemes throughout.

Sure, it misses some topics and overdoes others but its good on the fundamentals and intermediates.

I am a lecturer in tertiary education and use this on the course I teach. I've considered many books as student texts and this is the best for my purposes, as an adjunct to my teaching. Students certainly enjoy the style and content.

This book is part of the Blue-Black-Gold series that Coriolis run for VB. I haven't seen the Black book, but I strongly recommend the Gold Book. Keep printing them, Coriolis.

If you were scared to learn Visual Basic then be not afraid. Mr. Aitken slowly takes you down the learning path, guiding you every step of the way!!

By the time I made it to the end of this book I knew how to program VB 6. I was used to Java but new to the world of Visual Basic, a huge and complex world at that. To take on the task of writing a tutorial that can cover such a topic must have been daunting indeed, but this author has done it really well! The book was perfect for me because it assumed I knew nothing about VB, yet didn't bog me down with general programming fundamentals. The code exercises touch most all the areas a professional programmer is likely to encounter on the job. He both holds your hand through the exercises and lets you make some steps on your own, which I thought worked very well. If you want to learn Visual Basic 6, buy this book and work it through to the end...it's worth it.

This book is an excellent book on Visual Basic. I am surprised that it has not received more reviews and ranks so lowly on the amazon.com sales list. It is far better than some of the more popular Visaul Basic books, especially books intended for beginners. Peter Aitken is not only a good writer, he is also a good teacher. I recommend this book wholeheartedy to all of you Visual Basic beginners. I am certain this book will become more popular when the word gets out how good it is.

This book is for pre-beginners. It explains what the mouse is and what "Click" means. I had to wade through pages and pages of garbage like "this is the start menu" and "this is a button" to find any useful information. Then suddenly the author dives headfirst into objects and stacks. 1st too slow, then too fast.

This book is okay for beginers. Serial communication is very poor, even the Internet programming, so if you're looking info about this subjects don't buy this book, if you're a beginner, this book is for you.

This book starts off as so many other programming books do,with a few exeptions. The history is brief and to the point. The first chapter is dedicated to getting you ready for hands on Work with Visual Basic 6, and assumes a prior knowledge of basic Windows expierience. I find this book the be an exellent
resource for anyone wanting to learn Visual Basic. The few problems I found, was the constant repeating of "How to do his..." For myself this is rather annoying but for the beginner this "feature" will help you to remember simple things such as changing properties. When you complete this book, you will be ready to start writing you own Visual Basic programs with ease. One Word of warning, chapter 4 is a very in depth look at variables. Im now sure what the auther was thinking by putting so much information in one chapter, but at least is makes for easy refrence. The way I got through chapter 4 was to take lots and lots of notes, and refer back to them as needed. How ever after working with variables through out the book there's no doubt you can master them.

Gives a brief introduction to all the concepts in VB 6.0

I bought this book becasuse of the last 4 reviews but unfourunatlly this book start for 2 chapters for stage 1 too beginner, suddenly the author jumbs to classes then no where because he selected within his book some examples I don't know how and where he thought to use it for demonstration a very important points for programmers? Don't buy this book If you are interested like me for ActiveX , Databases and Visual Basic 6 Features.