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Title: VisualBasic .NET for Dummies by Wallace Wang ISBN: 0-7645-0867-9 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: QBASIC to VB .NET in 60 Seconds (Well almost!)
Comment: Highly recommended for us old school programmers stuck in time still developing for the COMMAND shell. Easy reading that quickly made it apparent to me that the transition to Windows application development wasn't going to be nearly as traumatic as I first thought. In my humble opinion this book is a valuable starting point to an inevitable journey for us dinosaurs.
Rating: 2
Summary: Barely for beginners...
Comment: I have another of Wallace Wang's books--"Steal this Book," which I found amusing and useful, and in my search for something to supplement a poorly written text for a class in vb.net, ran across this. I am dissappointed and have to agree with the other reviewer here who noted something like "why use 50 pages for what you can do in 350." The text is the most basic I have seen out of greater than twenty (I've looked at), and uses over the first half of the book just explaining why a programmer might like to align his objects and basic tripe like this. For non-designers even, this is poorly written. The reader won't get into anything really useful until the book is almost complete and then you'll be like "what the..."
I needed a reference because the text I'm using by Diane Zak, did not even explain the most basic things like "why define a variable" and honestly, for ten dollars less than the Wang book, Sybex' "Visual Basic .NET Complete" is a bargain and even has this question indexed! I like "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic .NET" for a beginners book, by Clayton Walnum, though I'm still reviewing it, and there's a multitiude of good high-end works on the subject. Wallace Wang really needs to reassess this technical end, because the entire compilation of information in this book was covered in the first couple of chapters in Zak's. One extreme to the other. Both inadequate. I would be hard pressed recommending this for even a "dummie."
Rating: 2
Summary: Why put in 50 pages what you can use 350 for?
Comment: For non-programmers who won't need to DO any VB programming. Much of content is repetitive and did I say repetitive? Examples are useless and do absolutely nothing you'd ever want to actually do. No CD with book, but you don't need one since code is as advertized, for idiots. On some of the more complex issues (the few he covers) I found treatment confusing and generated many more questions than it answered. I did enjoy the author's "flippant" tone. This may be the place you want to start if you are a computerphobic who's determined to start programming. Its almost painless and just as useful.
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Database Programming for Dummies by Richard Mansfield ISBN: 0764508741 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET for Dummies by Bill Hatfield ISBN: 0764508660 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET All in One Desk Reference for Dummies by Richard Mansfield ISBN: 0764525794 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 03 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Visual Studio.Net All in One Desk Reference for Dummies by Nitin Pandey, Senthil Nathan ISBN: 0764516264 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: C# for Dummies (With CD-ROM) by Stephen Randy Davis ISBN: 0764508148 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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