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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days
by Greg Perry
List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $20.99
ISBN: 0672313103
Publisher: SAMS (13 August, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 16,836
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
I'd recommend it to ANY beginner to intermediate programmer.
I purchased this book as a relatively new vb programmer. I'd had Visual Basic 6 for 3 days, and i already knew most of the very Basics of Visual Basic programming. With this book, however, i learned about so many more functions not obviously available without reading through all of the documentation. I learned about arrays and the Windows API and saving data and a lot more. Without this book I would still be at stage one. Since reading it, i've programmed a 2 applications, a game and an addressbook program, and they are great! By the way, it says "21 days", but I had finished several "days" in one day, and it really is much faster. Another nice thing about this book was that though it did provide source code, i didn't have to be sitting at the computer while reading to understand the concepts. I still use this book constantly as a reference. It is great for new programmers.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not even worth it for free
My company has a subscription to Safari Books Online, so I decided to see what Visual Basic books were available rather than buy my own book. I found this book and decided to try it out. What a mistake!The key to learning programming is to get as much hands-on practice as possible. Therefore, it is critical that programming books offer as many coding exercises as possible. This book doesn't have enough coding exercises, and many of the ones it does have do not work! I've double-checked my code to make sure it matched what is in the book, and I still get the "compile error" that other reviewers have mentioned. Worse yet, I checked the "Updates & Corrections" link at the Sams website and found nothing. In short, don't waste your money. I'm frustrated enough and I got it for free!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Is errors
Lots of syntax errors that will really trip up a beginner. They say that learning a programming language is easier than a language like Spanish or French, however in programming, your whole entire program is usless if one word is mispelled and you can't continue until it's fixed. For example: there's a bonus project at the end of every chapter that takes about an hour to go through. Then, when you're finally done, BLAMM!! COMPILE ERROR!!! That's one whole chapter that you won't learn anything. They're not just typos either. There is actual code that doesn't do what he sais that it's supposed to and you'll have to decypher it on your own. This guy seems like a good teacher and this book covers alot of importance, but errors and errors. If you're at least 6 months or more experienced with VB you might like this. Just don't pay attention to anything in the book.
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