1 comments about Visual Basic 4 Nuts & Bolts: For Experienced Programmers (Nuts & Bolts Series).

1. At 338 pages, this book is much smaller than many of the behemoth Visual Basic books. It focuses on explaining the Visual Basic environment and language to people who are already familiar with Windows programming in other environments.

   As a tutorial, this book was a great help. It's not a reference, and is best used as a supplement to the VB documentation. It's well worth the $25 cover price.

1 comments about Leveraging Visual Basic With Activex Controls.

1. This book contains too many errors and misrepresentations to be of use to beginning or experienced programmers. As an Instructor I attempted to use this book in a Visual Basic Internet programming class and it was a complete failure. This book is based on a beta copy of the Microsoft Internet Control Pack (ICP), which has been subsequently dropped by Microsoft. The ICP was full of bugs and incomplete code. The same can be said of the author's coverage and bundled code. For example, one of the author's sample VB programs had a path "d:\book\vbcode" hard coded in a sample program. The author's code could not be compiled. There were numerous errors with the text, the code, and other aspects of the book. The only thing of value in this book was some of the theoretical coverage of common Internet protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and SMTP/POP3. Unless you need to learn the old Microsoft Internet Control Package you should not buy this book

No comments about Show Me: Wordperfect 6 for Windows : A Visual Guide to the Basics (Show me).

No comments about Dr. C. Wacko Presents Applesoft Basic and the Whiz-Bang Miracle Machine.

5 comments about Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5 (Microsoft Programming Series).

1. This is not a 'learn-VB' book, basic, intermediate or advanced; nor is it a VB reference. It's just a disjoint series of vague discussions on stuff developers Don't need to get the job done.



2. Definitely NOT a tutorial. Great gobbets of information to make you think.



3. remember this: Microsoft don't make the best book, and this is one of them. I hate to say, I waste my money buying this book..



4. remember this: Microsoft don't make the best book, and this is one of them. I hate to say, I waste my money buying this book..



5. Many errors. Chapter 5 on using only Variants is a joke. This is very bad programming practice. Since this book has many different authors contributing their own articles, I would need to judge each chapter seperately. Some are very good (chapter 15 on reusability) and others are horrible (chapter 5). I suggest skimming through this book at a store to find if it has some articles of interest to you. It is certainly not a tutorial (hence the title "Advanced"). Programming is not a very debatable topic, so anytime you find an author who challenges common established practices, be wary of him. This book has some articles from those types of authors, who for some reason, are still living in the days when BASIC was a toy language. Visual Basic is certainly not that, and it is progressing to be structured very much like other solid languages.

No comments about Intelligent Robots and Systems Proceedings, 2000 Ieee/Rsj International Conference on.

1 comments about Web Programming With Visual Basic.

1. In general this book is not bad. It provided many interesting control. If you are really good at visual basic plus some internet knowlegde you may like it. This book lag quite a bit of explainations. I did not get my browser application running. (not quite sure how to hook my application to the cgi server, provided in the CD rom)

No comments about Fun Programming With Visual Basic/Book and Disk (Programming series).

1 comments about Visual Basic: A Project Driven Curriculum.

1. I bought this book before I taught my first year of Visual Basic to high school students. It saved me hundreds of hours of development time for lessons. I didn't even know the programming language myself when I was assigned to teach the class and the example programs given with the book helped me learn what I needed to know before the year began.
   
   Also, when some students pulled ahead of my learning I let them work on the advanced projects while slower students and I were still working on the earlier ones.
   
   The included quizzes were useful and saved more time for me while I learned the language with the students.
   
   I highly recommend the book for teachers or anyone who needs sample programs for basic VB.

5 comments about Visual Basic 6: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series).

1. No doubt, they have something useful for me. I found its contents quite incomplete though. In fact - I bought Wayne Freeze's "Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6" and it suites me better. I would not recommend this book to any one who have more than 3 years experience programming Visual Basic - but if you are new to VB E-commerce applications - check out the last 2 chapters. Almost tempted me to buy it before I found the other book.



2. Noel Jerke's book should not be called a 'reference' book in any sense of the word. However, it does cover a lot of VB6 content. Jerke takes a 'teaching by example' approach. Although none of the concepts (objects, collections etc)are really explained in detail, his show how you can use them. Another excellent feature is his step-by-step approach to real-life system development. There are several excellent projects that he has developed from start to finish using production-type databases (SQL server 7). This is definitely not a beginner's book. You need a real reference book like Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Programmer's Guide in order to totally understand and complete the examples. The programming styles that Jerke has used are consistently those recommended by Microsoft. You can learn a lot from the book provided you have the time and patience.



3. I have found this book to be next to useless because of the poorly implemented index. As examples, "Data Types" and "Call" are not included in the Index. Programmers using Visual Basic need to have quick access to looking up data types and specific verbs. Without this, the reader is on his own to dig through the book and hopefully spot what he is looking for. I have gone to this book countless times and rarely find the subject matter I need in the index.



4. I cannot believe the number of basic errors in this book. It looks like the author wrote it from memory and didn't test it or even proofread it. You must rely on previous knowledge of VB to fill in the gaps. If you are a beginner, forget it.



5. Don't expect to learn much using this book. However I will judge it as a reference and it is poor at that. The indexing is [bad] and, when you do get what you want, concepts are explained in a confusing manner, just a sea of abstractions. This person has little talent as a teacher. The good thing I can say is there are lots of examples (i.e breifly explained code and pictures) that might be useful to you (which I found learning ADO). Otherwise don't get this book unless you like to be frustrated and bored.