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Title: Practical Visual Basic 6 by Bob Reselman, Eric A. Smith, Richard A. Peasley ISBN: 0-7897-2145-7 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 23 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best intoductory book for VB6
Comment: You've just bought VB6 so now what? Practical Visual Basic 6 that's what. It is cheaper than other books and covers usefull topics in depth, rather than try to gloss over everything. It has a language reference section which is a good thing for a begginer, and it has a CD with all the code examples - saves time typing - also includes working model VB6. A clear choice all round.
Rating: 2
Summary: Beginners, stay clear of this book...
Comment: This is strictly a book for beginners, as it covers only the rudimentary concepts of visual basic. You'd benefit from it if you've never written a line of code in your life. Even for total greenhorn, it's very tedious to read page after page about addition/subtraction/multiplication/division operations.
The greatest problem with this book, as with many, many other programming books, is that the authors just throw large chunks of code at you without bothering to explain why or how they work. For instance, on page 138 of the paperback edition, the author would write "Exit Sub" on line 44, without telling you why you would want to do that at that point. You WON'T find it explained in its context in the entire book. For beginners (as this book is obviously targetting at), this is plain bad practice. You'd have very many "whys" knocking around in your head, and you'd be left hopelessly lost. You'd even begin to doubt yourself, and think it's your fault, which of course it isn't. It's just bad writing.
In addition, in some cases, the authors seem to hate using the properties window, and wouldn't tell you that it may be much easier to use the properties window (for design-time properties)than writing laborious codes. The MoveIt example at page 98 illustrates my point.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend it to beginners, even though this book is written with beginners in mind. It'd put you off using visual basic, maybe forever. Try another book. There're many good ones lying around.
Rating: 3
Summary: Average book
Comment: There is no easy way in evaluating this book. One can always say the classic response, 'It was all right' and just walk away.
The book had much more examples to look at than in had tutorial type examples. It was fast reading. In the sample code the book teaches you the code by mixing it with other new concepts that will be explained later on. This somewhat leaves one with a funny feeling that the whole is not yet fully understood. Most of the sample applications, though sometimes very long in code, are not exactly real world applications. The book seems much easier than what it appears to be. A number of chapters, such as Activex components and data forms, cannot be done with the Learners Edition of Visual Basic thats provided in the book cd.
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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: Visual Basic® 6 in Plain English by Brian Overland ISBN: 0764570072 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Jeffrey McManus' Database Access with Visual Basic 6 by Jeffrey P. McManus ISBN: 0672314223 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 21 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic 6 Complete by Steve Brown, Sybex ISBN: 0782124690 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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