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Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: An Object-Oriented Approach- Comprehensive
by William Newman, Michael V. Ekedahl
List Price: $58.95
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ISBN: 0619016582
Publisher: Course Technology (09 August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 296,130
Average Customer Rating: 2.62 out of 5
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Rating: 2 out of 5
Not for absolute beginners.
I have been using this book in my VB class for 4 months in local community college. The only people who like this book are teachers! I had to read the chapters at least twice to understand what the auther is explaining. Chapter 6 is especially bad, in the chapter the auther completed half the code in the example and completely ignored to explain them. The graphic part of this book was very difficult to understand. The code example (the one that completed by author, you can download from publisher) in Chapter 6 gives wrong result when you run the solution for print out. The first several chapters were OK, but as it gets harder the author is not so kind to the students, he skips explanations even though it is a new concept. As a result we were forced to use other books, lab assistants, and so forth to complete our work. The good part is I was forced to be an independent thinker, since we cannot count on author to explan subjects. If you are using this book in the class or other environment in which some help is available to you, then this book is somewhat acceptable. Just do not use this book if you are thinking to learn VB on your own. I know that most of the programming books are not easy to read and programming students have a lot of work to do, even then this book is sub-standard.
Rating: 5 out of 5
As good as it gets for VB.NET books
I thought the book was very helpful. Each chapter has a tutorial that takes you step by step to learn the material. It lists out all the relevant properties of controls and lets you know what each one does. The book explains a lot and uses pictures and screen shots to help. Yes, some of it is hard to understand, but almost every programming book has an element of this as it is not an easy task to learn a new language and it's not easy to explain it well through text alone. I wish the book would have covered more ASP.NET(only one chapter) and more on crystal reports. If you are just starting out this is a GREAT book. Even if you don't totally understand what the author is saying, you can still easily follow the tutorial step by step and will pick it up. I think books that uses tutorials are much easier to work with. If your confused there's always an easy to learn example.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Great teacher, not so great book
I'm taking a class from the author this semester - thus my anonymity (hey, I still want a chance at a 4.0!). Mike Ekedahl is a very knowledgable resource and an excellent teacher. You wouldn't know it from reading this book though. The book is incredibly hard to understand. It's one of those books where you can read the same sentence 10 times and still not have a clue what you just read. Instead of breaking the new terminology into easier-to-understand material, the chapters use previously undefined terminology to define the new terminology making for a very difficult read. I found the MSDN library to be far more help than this book.
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