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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 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.02
Rating: 5
Summary: The first step...
Comment: I actually used this book many moons ago, but saw it on my shelf and thought id offer my thoughts. I remember when I wanted to get into VB a few years ago. Every book I got confused me even more. I thought I was stupid. I may be...but THIS book was able to get past that and give me a working knowledge of VB. Its first few examples will have you understanding properties, methods and events in their most basic forms. The book continues to do increasingly more complex examples. About halfway though the book, i pretty much felt comfortable going off on my own into more advanced topics. I refer to it every once in a while, but mostly, I gained the foundation I needed and havent needed it since. I would highly recommend this for the beginner who just doesnt know where to start. This book paired with the Visual Basic Black book from Coriolis will have you doing everything short of API calls in a couple of weeks. Happy coding. One word of advice... Be cautious with the Step by Step books from MS press. Halvorson did an excellent job with this one, but other Authors have failed miserably at other topics in the same line.
Rating: 2
Summary: Extensive coverage of basics, but important details missing
Comment: I am an experienced Windows and C++ programmer, and bought this book based on the rave reviews to just get a handle on the fundamental structure of VB.
The text provides very clear coverage of many of the fundamentals of the language, but spends more time showing you how to do something rather than why you should do it that way. (To be fair, however, this book is a cut above the maddening "Teach yourself X in N days" texts, which don't teach you ANYTHING.) The author also persists in some bad programming habits, such as typing everything as a Variant. The simplicity of the presentation is often excessive, causing the book to give short shrift to more advanced topics. Most (if not all) of the "step by step" examples are so obvious there's no need to follow along using the IDE. Then you get to the more advanced database and DHTML material near the end of the book, and the light coverage makes the examples (and much of the text) useless.
Although I am the first to admit that this text was TOO simple for my background, I am disappointed that some topics were entirely omitted or not explained clearly, such as: Class Modules, why you would use more than one Standard Module, good practices for declaring and using application and module level constants.
So, although you will learn to make a cute VB slot machine and other programs of similar complexity, you won't learn how to produce any VB code that any competent programer would take a second look at.
The best advice is probably to read this book in a week's time to get the fundamentals, then find an advanced book that addresses the topics of real importance. When they say this book is for beginners, think "complete beginners" and know what you're getting.
Rating: 4
Summary: All I had to say is I love it ...... I love the book
Comment: Cuurently I am a freshman computer science student at Lamar University here in Beaumont. And I always wanted to learn Visual Basic and in high school they didn't teach VB, but in college as computer science student you don't have a choice, in other words you have to take this class I should say 3 or 5 of these classes. So I started my first semister in August 98 and took a VB class, I found VB quite easy to use programming language. DO YOU KNOW WHY I FOUND VB EASY ? because I bought this book at the first day of my class and this book is the only thing you need if you are a beginner. This Book has sample programs and author teaches new stuff by the help of those programs. I found SBSVB6.0 very useful book and I am ready to sugest it to any beginner of VB. and yeah I also bought a visual basic book name VISUAL BASIC 6 HOW-TO and that book didn't help alot. it was just waste of money. BUT I am 100% sure if you realy want to learn Visual Basic and go on Go get Microsoft Visual basic step by step6. I am 100% sure.....
if you want to know more about Visual Basic books you can E-mail me I will be glad to help you out.
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide (Programmer's Guide) by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Press ISBN: 1572318635 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6 by John Smiley ISBN: 1902745000 Publisher: Active Path Pub. Date: 30 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 by Francesco Balena ISBN: 0735605580 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Reference Library by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Press ISBN: 1572318643 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming by John Connell ISBN: 1861001061 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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