Rating: 1 out of 5
Professional?????
Be sure that there is nothing professional about this book. It is certainly one of the worst out there. The applications you build in the book are based on code of the lowest quality. Nothing object oriented here. It has nothing to offer to the intermediate user and above and will introduce the beginner to some very bad programming habbits.Don't be fooled that it 'll let you build a full video kiosk application. The intermediate could do with no effort and the beginner won't understand what and why, simply because it just throws totally basic code and explains nothing. Not even the SQL. Then half of the content is of (the much ridiculus) style: "Now that we learned this, let's go and learn this"(end of section), next section: "in the previous section we learnd this, now let's go and learn this", or,"figure X shows ..." (figure) "as shown in figure X...". Irritating the least. I just adopts a "tell it to a ten years old" manner but actually says nothing usefull. Bottom line: just don't buy.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is my favorite...
This book provides the clearest and most thorough explanations I have seen in any Visual Basic book to date. It is described by Book News, Inc. as a book for "experienced application developers" but I think it is an excellent work for beginners as well as experienced programmers. The explanations are focused and lead the reader logically to easily understood learning plateaus. It is not the typically verbose and boring programming tutorial. The authors treat the readers like they are intelligent and serious about learning. The code examples support the concepts and provide an unambiguous path to discovery (the point where the light comes on). If you are teaching Visual Basic .NET, trying to learn it on your own, or just need a good reference for the occasional lookup, this is a great text. Of almost thirty Visual Basic .NET, .NET 2003, and nearly forty VB6 books in my collection this is my absolute favorite. I use this book the most in my daily programming effort and to prepare my college classroom material.
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