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Title: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET by Diane Zak ISBN: 0619016620 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.25
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring, poor reference
Comment: Like every book I use, or read, I don't judge it by the cover, but content speaks loudly. While one reviewer puts users in extremes, I am at niether. I am no novice, but also, while I have built my own machine, I'm not interested in knowing every in and out of the project on which I'm working. ...
I was required to buy this for a class and have to say that the book may walk you through the tutorials in an okay manner, but it falls far short of what any true technophile might want in that that the author just spouts out information and how to perform certain tasks without giving full explanations and there isn't even a glossary. So much for reference...about as good as [a software company's] help files...
So, for the techies, I'm not buying this is the best reference. For those not so interested in the fine mechanics, but definitely in learning the program solidly with at least some minute understanding, it falls short here also. It is not only as dull as your tongue covered in chalk, but doesn't explain very well why the reader is doing certain tasks or what the base purpose of these simple tasks really is. I'm already looking for other reference materials and we're only five weeks into a fifteen week class...
...bummer. If you're able, shop around and read the reviews carefully.
Rating: 2
Summary: Why Buy???
Comment: If you are like me and got stuck buying this book for a programming class at school, you probably have a number of welts on your forehead from how often you fell asleep while reading only to have banged your head against a wall or some other dangerous object that caught your face as you drifted into slumberland.
Hey, some teachers really should think before forcing students to buy books like this. Times are hard folks and money should be spent properly. Let's face it... the average student taking a computer class falls into one of two groups:
The first group has never seen the inside of a computer, would never know a memory chip if it slapped them in the face, thinks Microsoft Works is the same as Microsoft Office, and for some reason gets mad at a computer manufacturer when there dinosaur, 233 MGHz processor, 32 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive (with 1.5 GB already clogged by multiple AOL installs) will not install their bootlegged copy of Windows XP.
The second group loves to sit at a computer for hours trying to make a program work instead of using a working program. This group is not satisfied with being told that a textbox is an object, but instead wants to understand what an object is and fully explore all facets of the object. For this group, being given a fish or a fishing pole is just not enough... instead, making their own fishing pole is what this group wants.
For those students that fall into the first group, this book is for you. It is like training wheels on a bicycle.
For the student in the second group, curse the day you signed up for class with that teacher and make a trip to a good bookstore and buy a book that boldly goes where no one in group one has gone before.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough
Comment: This was my first exposure to Visual Basic. I found Zak's treatment of the material a straightforward progression-- covering the essential building blocks required to begin to develop applications. The "tutorial" format with accompanying Questions, Exercises, Discovery and Debugging sections greatly assists the assimilation of the material.
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Title: Network Service Investment Guide: Maximizing ROI in Uncertain Times (Networking Council) by Mark Gaynor ISBN: 0471214752 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Perl Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM) by Joe Merlino ISBN: 0764548271 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Business Data Networks and Telecommunications (4th Edition) by Raymond R. Panko ISBN: 0130359149 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $105.33 |
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Title: Systems Architecture, Third Edition by Stephen D. Burd ISBN: 0619034181 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 30 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $70.95 |
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Title: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: An Object-Oriented Approach- Comprehensive by William Newman, Michael V. Ekedahl ISBN: 0619016582 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 09 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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