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Title: Programming Visual Basic .NET with Student CD by Julia Case Bradley, Anita C. Millspaugh ISBN: 0-07-255998-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 29 July, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $74.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Visual Tutorial for a Visual Language
Comment: Visual Basic .Net programming (in fact, any Visual Studio programming) is a very visual process. As such, it requires a visual guide to learning the language and the development environment.
This book is one such guide, and does its job as well as a book can. However, even that is not enough to make learning VB.Net painless. There are so many diagrams in the book that it ultimately ends up being long and tedious. But I don't fault the book, as it's the best I've ever seen for this type of subject. It's just that a book can't do justice for the language as well as a classroom.
For self-study, I would recommend not a book but a CBT (computer-based training) course. Instead of making the student wade through pages and pages of screenshots, a CBT course animates the process of creating a program, and tests him or her at key points along the way. However, CBT courses aren't cheap. As a paper alternative, this is the only book I could recommend for the beginning Visual Basic student.
Rating: 4
Summary: Used in college course
Comment: I'm taking a visual basic class at my local community college this semester and we're using this book. I really like it and it's laid out well and is particularly good for looking things up when you need a reference guide. There's a program at the end of each chapter (they give you the full source code along with the psuedocode and form design so that you can create it all yourself). There have been a few minor mistakes that we've found but otherwise the book is excellent for learning VB.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not good for teaching yourself
Comment: This textbook is lousy if you are using it to teach yourself. The book gives snippets of sample code, but it is difficult for the reader to start coding a project using these samples because they are too isolated and they do not build one upon the other to give a sense of continuity. At the end of each chapter a large amount of code is printed. This is the solution, but how the reader gets to that solution can be quite a problem. I doubt if the authors tested the manuscript on potential students, the sycophantic blurb on the back cover notwithstanding.
I found a much better book with which to teach myself: "Visual Basic .NET Step by Step", 2nd edition, by Michael Halvorson, Microsoft Press. This book lives up to the "Step by Step" in its name. You cannot get lost following it.
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Title: Adv Programming Using VB.Net w/ 60 day Trial & Student CD by Julia Case Bradley, Anita Millspaugh, Julia Case Bradley ISBN: 0072877715 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 07 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $76.45 |
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Title: Programming in Visual Basic .Net by Julia Case Bradley, Anita Millspaugh ISBN: 0072854375 Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $78.25 |
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Title: MP - Systems Analysis & Design w/Proj Cases CD by Jeffrey L Whitten, Lonnie D. Bentley, Kevin Dittman, Jeffrey Whitten, Lonnie Bentley ISBN: 0072932619 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 26 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $135.30 |
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Title: Practical Analysis and Design for Client/Server and Gui Systems (Yourdon Press Computing Series) by David A. Ruble ISBN: 013521758X Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $72.00 |
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Title: COBOL: From Micro to Mainframe: Fujitsu Version (3rd Edition) by Robert T. Grauer, Carol Vasquez Villar, Arthur R. Buss, Arthur Buss, Robert Grauer ISBN: 0130858498 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 22 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $97.00 |
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