The book fails to adequately describe the properties of Visual Basic's standard controls, giving only a cursory discussion of a handful of properties. It even goes so far as not discussing a property it expects the reader to utilize in the chapter exercises.

Where sample code is provided, it often completely confuses the reader. Code is shown in the book from screen shots, with no attention paid to the fact that the code was often cut off on the far right due to the author's screen resolution.

In addition, this book is poorly laid out. It expects the user to learn debugging in the second chapter of programming, before even touching on variables or decision-making processes.

In at least one instance, the book actually provides incorrect syntax for a frequently used statement. The SELECT CASE statement is incorrectly taught as simply SELECT, causing any reader trying to duplicate Wilborn's code to get syntax errors until they figure out on their own the correct syntax for the statement.

In short, I would not recommend this book for anyone, whether a beginning user or an advanced programmer. Its inconsistencies will confuse and frustrate the beginner, and will probably annoy the advanced programmer.