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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days by Greg Perry ISBN: 0-672-31310-3 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (82 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I'd recommend it to ANY beginner to intermediate programmer.
Comment: I purchased this book as a relatively new vb programmer. I'd had Visual Basic 6 for 3 days, and i already knew most of the very Basics of Visual Basic programming. With this book, however, i learned about so many more functions not obviously available without reading through all of the documentation. I learned about arrays and the Windows API and saving data and a lot more. Without this book I would still be at stage one. Since reading it, i've programmed a 2 applications, a game and an addressbook program, and they are great! By the way, it says "21 days", but I had finished several "days" in one day, and it really is much faster. Another nice thing about this book was that though it did provide source code, i didn't have to be sitting at the computer while reading to understand the concepts. I still use this book constantly as a reference. It is great for new programmers.
Rating: 2
Summary: The worst VB 6.0 book a true beginner could ever buy!!!
Comment: I have been struggling to learn VB 6.0 with this book, and I will tell you, it is terrible. The book starts out great, with a very thorough explanation and it doesn't overwhelm you. But, all the details it tells you not to worry about come back to haunt you as you progress. They don't just come back to haunt you; they slam you hard. This book goes from a snail's pace to WAYYYYY too fast, in a matter of pages. The book leaves out a ton of details. In one instance, you are asked to create a form with option buttons (radio buttons) that respond to the user clicking them with messages; well, they never even tell you how to write the code for an option button in the section that was supposed to cover it!!!!!! Horrible stuff here, people. To make matters worse, the book is strewn with a ton of errors! The very first problem they have you code has a mistake in it, that only a more advanced programmer would pick up on. The errors continue thoroughout the book and, in some cases, the whole program is completely out of wack. Not only this, but there are not many good sample problems to solve and the examples they give are incomplete, which only adds to the confusion. Simply do not buy this book if you are a true beginner and if you are not, then why would you need this book anyway???? I cannot recommend this at all, and am only giving it 2 stars based on the fact that it has a decent introduction to the VB world, but the substance is flawed. This book almost made me hate VB. Please stay away everybody:(
Rating: 2
Summary: Not even worth it for free
Comment: My company has a subscription to Safari Books Online, so I decided to see what Visual Basic books were available rather than buy my own book. I found this book and decided to try it out. What a mistake!
The key to learning programming is to get as much hands-on practice as possible. Therefore, it is critical that programming books offer as many coding exercises as possible. This book doesn't have enough coding exercises, and many of the ones it does have do not work! I've double-checked my code to make sure it matched what is in the book, and I still get the "compile error" that other reviewers have mentioned. Worse yet, I checked the "Updates & Corrections" link at the Sams website and found nothing.
In short, don't waste your money. I'm frustrated enough and I got it for free!
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself More Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days (2nd Edition) by Lowell Mauer ISBN: 0672313073 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 14 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672315335 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 23 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days (3rd Edition) by Curt Smith, Michael Amundsen ISBN: 0672313081 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming with Visual Basic in 21 Days by Clayton Walnum ISBN: 067231987X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 04 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days by Duncan Mackenzie, Kent Sharkey ISBN: 0672320665 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 29 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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