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Title: Special Edition Using Visual Basic.NET by Jeff Spotts, Brian Siler ISBN: 0-7897-2572-X Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 21 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a beginers book as it wants you to think
Comment: This book is easy to read, and it has a lot of useful information, but the fact is that the book sucks for beginers. Hear me out. I've started this book and it immediately jumps into two semi-complex programs that are about a page long with all sorts of stuff that gets NO specific explanation. I thought, okay it will get better. You don't even get to the actualy coding until page 140. The coverage of the compiler is nice and all, but this book goes into advances topics without explaining the basics. You are left dumbfounded as example after example uses functions etc that the author doesn't even try to partially explain. A lot of quick tips are given and small isolated examples of functions, but this book is not a tutorial for a beginner. This book is more of a "pretty good" review of vb.net for an already intermediate visual basic programmer. I'm going to need another book or to find some really good tutorials on the net because this book is just leaving me confused.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Book for Beginners
Comment: I found this book very informative and here are my comments:
The positive points:
* Good coverage of VB.Net features
* There are 'good basic examples' on advanced topics like .Net Remoting, Printing, File Handling, creating your own controls, Crystal Reports etc.
* The source code can be downloaded from the publisher site. So you can always have the author's code for reference (so I did not bother much about typos)
* Database section was well covered in 3 chapters (from a beginner perspective)
Negative Points:
* The section on ASP.Net web programming is ok.
* I wish they had covered in more detail the advanced topics like Remoting.
* Multithreading is not touched in the book.
* Network Programming too is not covered
Overall a decent book to read the first time and to understand the concepts, considering that advanced topics require books of their own :)
Rating: 1
Summary: error laden
Comment: I'm only thru a few chapters and there's alot of typos. Some of the typos are so far off it's incredible. Thank goodness for having the source code with it to see how it works. Only reason I bought this particular title because I need it for school. I hate I bought it. QUE books and the "Special Edition Using" series have always been good, but I think they may have rushed this book to press trying to beat others to print. Poor editing. I'm very disappointed.
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Unleashed by Paul Kimmel ISBN: 067232234X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Asp.Net (Special Edition Using) by Richard Leinecker ISBN: 0789725606 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (3rd Edition) by Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein ISBN: 0672323435 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Software Engineering: A Beginner's Guide by Roger S Pressman ISBN: 0070507902 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $92.30 |
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Title: Electronic Commerce 2002: A Managerial Perspective (2nd Edition) by Efraim Turban, David King, Jae Lee, Merrill Warkentin, H. Michael Chung Chung, Michael Chung ISBN: 0130653012 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $130.00 |
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