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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours by Greg Perry ISBN: 0-672-31533-5 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 23 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.1 (42 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Intro to VB
Comment: As a MIS major in a co-op school, I thought that learning VB would give me a competitive advantage when I applied for a job. This book was excellent in providing a general overview of all of the things that you can do with VB. Like a survey course in college, however, it merely scratches the surface. THE BEST WAY TO LEARN VB is not through a book, class or any other academic environment. THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS BY DOING IT. Hands-on (not the easy spoon-feed exercises found in most books) experience is the best teacher. I wanted to learn VB, so I would get a job where I use it every day. The better I get, the more I would get paid. However, this is not always possible, and I recommend the following books for those who want real "hands on" exercises: Visual Basic 6 Developer's Workshop and Sams Teach Yourself MORE Visual Basic in 21 Days.
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Book For "Beginners"
Comment: Many books seen in the market on different subjects claim to be written for "beginners", but one can accurately say that this book HAS been. If you're just starting programming in Visual Basic 6, then this is definately the book for you. It is filled with step-by-step instructions and helpful hints that will get you started on the right path. Plus, it teaches the lessons in easy to understand descriptions, so it doesn't take too long to learn. This book was my starting point, and it did me a lot of good, so I'm suggesting this book to anyone interested in the profitable programming business. I'd also like to recommend Dan Appleman's book on the Windows 32-bit API, which will further your knowledge in more difficult application coding.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good as intro but...
Comment: I bought this book having done no programming in nearly 10 years (since a couple Pascal classes in college). I learned the BASIC language on an Apple IIe well before that. I chose this particular text because it came with a working model of VB6 which most of the other books I looked at did not do.
Anyway, the material presented is very easy to understand. The lessons are easy to complete in an hour each. Once you've completed all 24 lessons, you'll have a good grasp on many facets of the VB6 language and environment.
However...there are problems.
First, the book gives examples and suggestions to the reader who is using Visual Studio Professional. That's all well and good but the book DOESN'T COME WITH THAT. The book should assume all you've got is the Working Model version that came with it and that's it.
Second, some of the structure of the lessons make no sense. For example, in the middle of the lesson on message boxes and input boxes, there's a detour to cover remarks. Huh?
Third, some of the lessons require knowledge of later chapters to complete their assignments. One of the assignments in Chapter 10 requires knowledge from Chapter 11 to be completed.
Fourth, as others have mentioned, there are some typos and mistakes in the text. For example, in Chapter 17 on menus, the author has you step by step create a menu system with items for New, Open, Close & Exit in the menu. However, the text completely skips over Close and does Exit twice, the first time referencing the Close option that was never done!
Finally, this book does nothing to tie everything together. There's no overall application developed during the course of the book, there's nothing here on developing anything more than very, very short procedures and examples. This would the book's biggest flaw IMO. When I stepped up to a more difficult text ("Teach Yourself Game Programming With Visual Basic 6") after completing this one, I found myself lacking skills and knowledge in a number of areas that I should have known about.
To sum up, I'd recommend this book to a beginner as an intro. Just be aware that you'll likely need another "beginner" book after this one to broaden your knowledge. "24 Hours" gets your feet wet in an easy-to-read, gentle fashion that will prepare you for other, drier, texts.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672313103 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 24 Hours by Mickey Williams ISBN: 0672313030 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 03 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours (5th Edition) by Michael Morrison, Dick Oliver ISBN: 0672320762 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic 6 for Dummies (for Windows) by Wallace Wang ISBN: 0764503707 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 21 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672323079 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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