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5 comments about Using Visual Basic for Applications 5 (Using ... (Que)).

1. For VBA, BUT WAIT -- on the CD are the complete books SE:Using ActiveX and SE: Using VBScript, making this sort of a three-for-one. I bought this one and did not even realise it -- I got so used to a lot of the same-old junk on CD! On the companion disk go to the ActiveX folder, activex.htm and you will have their ActiveX Resource Center... which can bring the two other books up on the CD, nice and quick, and also links to Office 97 resources and other stuff. Que books can tend to be a bit too general, but this has a lot of info and is more succinct than most offerings from Que. If you are starting out with scripting hoping to roll your knowledge over to Office Apps someday, then this is the BEST DEAL you will ever get.



2. I have programmed and used Word Basic, but this book left me feeling a little lost. The book was written by several people who appear to assume that some subjects will be covered in a different chapter. Other topics were covered more then once. I was disappointed and am still not able to create a comphresive macro in VBA.



3. This book covers a lot of topics - but lacks in-depth explanation on many important stuffs. I tried to reference the book to help me with some Excel automation. However, the 40 Excel pages in the book helps only a little. Not a single word on 'charts', poor presentation on 'Range', no mention of Excel built-in functions... MS user's guide or online help is much better. The coverage on other parts look just like the Excel.



4. This book is a good starting point before you go out and buy that 2 inch thick book on your individual office component. This book does not go into advanced concepts, it is moreover a guide to Office's object model. I felt that it left many important concepts out. The selection of what was important in Excel was sporadically helpful. I started out with this book, but needed additional references to drill into the specifics. I've *never* accessed data the way they say to in Access, nor would I. There is a discussion section in the back with suggestions on how to use the Office suite to solve problems, but no specifics.



5. This book shows at a very high-level, what you can do with VBA in all of those MS Office applications.

   The only problem with this book is that every piece of information can be gathered from MSDN.

   If you are not sure what VBA is, or how you can use other Microsoft Products in you Visual Basic projects, then get this book. It will be a real eye-opener.

1 comments about Introduction to Computer Programming in Visual Basic 4.0.

1. good introduction to programming through the use of visual basic. how about one for the java language?

3 comments about Software Development for Engineers: with C, Pascal, C++, Assembly Language, Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript and Java.

1. The material about the different languages is good, but a little bit supperficial, it is only a preview, I cosider that is better to learn each language separately.



2. If you have been trying to decide which language you want to start programming in, or would like to see the structure of other programming languages, this is the book.
   It will not teach you the from novice, but will give you a general insight into each of the languages.
   



3. If you are an engineer on the field, you already had general ideas about these programming languages, so this book is a joke! DON'T WASTE MONEY ON IT ! You need more specific books. This book is best for 2nd-year engineering students, or general readers who are CURIOUS about software development, it will satify your curiosity, but it will not take you anywhere ! The book title "...For ENGINEERS" stinks because engineers need much deeper book than that, they need 'real food', not just a 'smell' of foods which may [make them upset]!!!
   I gave '1 star' for the book title "...ENGINEERS" and '3 stars' for general readers, so my rating is 2 stars.

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