Hey, some teachers really should think before forcing students to buy books like this. Times are hard folks and money should be spent properly. Let's face it... the average student taking a computer class falls into one of two groups:

The first group has never seen the inside of a computer, would never know a memory chip if it slapped them in the face, thinks Microsoft Works is the same as Microsoft Office, and for some reason gets mad at a computer manufacturer when there dinosaur, 233 MGHz processor, 32 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive (with 1.5 GB already clogged by multiple AOL installs) will not install their bootlegged copy of Windows XP.

The second group loves to sit at a computer for hours trying to make a program work instead of using a working program. This group is not satisfied with being told that a textbox is an object, but instead wants to understand what an object is and fully explore all facets of the object. For this group, being given a fish or a fishing pole is just not enough... instead, making their own fishing pole is what this group wants.

For those students that fall into the first group, this book is for you. It is like training wheels on a bicycle.

For the student in the second group, curse the day you signed up for class with that teacher and make a trip to a good bookstore and buy a book that boldly goes where no one in group one has gone before.