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Title: Learning VBScript by Paul Lomax ISBN: 1-56592-247-6 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Still the best
Comment: This was the first book I bought on VBScript and since then I have read and seen many books on VBScript, this is by far the very best there is, O'Reilly style quality comes out of every page, this isn't an idiots guide or a teach you in 10 minutes tutorial, it's serious stuff - but at a fast enough pace. So if I've already got a copy why am I here? well I just bought ten copies for my developers, I saw the comment below and I felt compelled to write here... perhaps our friend from Silicon Valley has a downer on VB/VBS/AnythingMicrosoft? OK the MSIE object model is showing its age but you'll not find a better introduction to the language anywhere.
Rating: 3
Summary: Overall a good tutorial on VBScript, even tho' it's outdated
Comment: Don't buy this book in the yera 2000... buy VBScript Programmer's Reference instead, by Wrox Press. It covers the latest and greatest, VBScript 5.0, instead of Lomax's rinky-dink 1.0 and a bit of 2.0 coverage. I gave this book 3 stars, though, because the quality of Lomax's "lessons" and explanations are great if you are new to VB or a scripting language. Indeed, Lomax demonstrates how VBScript is much easier to learn than JavaScript.
Overall, it is better to buy a book that is more updated. This is a dinosaur in today's lightning-speed techno market, and it needs to be put in the museum (c'mon, 1997? )
Rating: 5
Summary: Still using this book in 2003!
Comment: This is the best VBScript book and I've never felt the need to get another one. It's accessible to a novice (which I was when I first bought it) but has enough depth and richness of information to still be used as a reference guide now that I have over 5 years of experience. I can look up all the functions in it quickly (easy to forget syntax when you're programming in VBScript and client-side JavaScript at the same time), since I've marked the pages with post-it tabs, and it's well organized so that I can find things quickly even if I haven't marked them. Sure, it doesn't describe some of the newer language features that came out after it was published, but still it will work 95% of the time. I notice the same author worked on the O'Reilly VBScript in a Nutshell book, so I might check that out, but generally I don't like the Nutshell books as much because they don't have code samples.
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Title: VBScript in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, Ron Petrusha ISBN: 0596004885 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: VBScript Pocket Reference by Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha, Matt Childs ISBN: 0596001266 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: VBScript : Programmer's Reference by Susanne Clark, Antonio De Donatis, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie Kingsley-Hughes, Brian Matsik, Erick Nelson, Piotr Prussak, Daniel Read, Carsten Thomsen, Stuart Updegrave ISBN: 0764543679 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 31 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Jerry Lee, Jr. Ford, Jerry Lee Ford Jr. ISBN: 159200072X Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide by The Microsoft Windows Resourc, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735618674 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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