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Title: Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up by Gary Cornell ISBN: 0078825083 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a beginner's book
Comment: A word of caution...this is not a beginner's book. The title is misleading in that it sounds as though one can simply pick up this book and "presto" learn VB6. I found this an excellent SECOND VB6 book. I am not a programmer by trade but nonetheless hold several advanced degrees...i.e., I not THAT stupid!. I found the first 200 pages to be easy to follow and very helpful. After this, however, I quickly was lost. Cornell doesn't supply enough examples of when you might use a programming technique. At times the book simply supplies a laundry list of items..i.e., "intrinsic functions", etc. Many other topics are covered in rather vague terms (at least for the beginner). The chapter on databases discusses only DAO, a soon-to-be obsolete technology, instead of ADO. On the positive side, once I learned a bit more VB6 (I read Peter Wright's "Beginning Visual Basic 6.0"), Cornell's book actually became helpful. If one has a reasonable grasp of VB, then the author provides some valuable programming tips, etc. Thus, if already have some experience with VB or another programming language, this is a reasonable book. If you are truly a NOVICE, however, I'd recommend you spend your money elsewhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for the Compleat Novice
Comment: The text is aimed at the complete novice. If you don't know anything about programming, you will probably find this book helpful. If you are knowledgeable at all, the text will be tedious. The book attempts to cover too much, and hence the depth to which any subject is treated is extremely small. As an introduction to programming and VB, the book could have been shorter; I opine that approximately a third of the chapters could've been eliminated. Here's a paraphrased Table Of Contents: The IDE & Help; Simple Programs; First Steps Building The User Interface; First Steps In Programming; Displaying Information; Controlling Program Flow; Built-In Functions; Writing Your Own Functions; Organizing Information Via Code; Organizing Information Via Controls; Building Larger Projects; Introduction To Object Oriented Programming; Finishing The Interface; An Intro To Graphics; Monitoring Mouse Activity; Basic File Handling; File System Controls; Communicating With Other Windows Apps; Recursion; A Survey Of Database Development With VB; Building Your Own Activex Controls; Building A Web Browser; Vbscript And HTML; Distributing Your App.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Good
Comment: I should like to point out that the comment above regarding typos is not correct. True the example is missing a parenthesis (which the reviewer misspelled), however the move method DOES NOT require 4 arguments when anyone of the optional 3 are there. The arguments are left, top, width and height. You must specify all arguments that appear in the syntax before the argument you want to specify. For example, you can't specify width without specifying left and top. Any trailing arguments that are unspecified remain unchanged.
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step-By- Step. by Michael Halvorson ISBN: 1572318090 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed by Ray Rankins, Paul Jensen, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein ISBN: 0672319977 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 12 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Paul Sheriff Teaches Visual Basic 6 by Pauld. Sheriff, Paul Sheriff ISBN: 0789718987 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 21 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 6 by Deborah Kurata ISBN: 1562765779 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6 by John Smiley ISBN: 1902745000 Publisher: Active Path Pub. Date: 30 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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