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Title: Hands on Visual Basic 5 by Sharon J. Podlin, Pamela Palmer, Pam Palmer ISBN: 0-7615-1046-X Publisher: Learning Express Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: this book is garbage. It deserves a 0 or -1 star rating!
Comment: Terrible book containing numerous code errors. The sample projects on the CD-ROM do not function properly. Some will not even load properly into VB5 for development/correction. Parts of the projects, such as images are missing as well. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

Rating: 5
Summary: This is the *second* VB book you should buy...
Comment: after you've completed a beginner, syntax-oriented text. Having worked my way through nearly a dozen programming texts in 4 different languages, I'm happy to say that this is one of the best books of its kind I've ever read. You actually get to work through projects that aren't "toy" programs, but begin to look and feel like real Windows-based appplications. It's a real feeling of accomplishment, and a great way to sharpen your programming skills. Excellent work, Ms. Podlin!

Rating: 4
Summary: You'll love it! You'll hate it! Fabulous guide full of typos
Comment: Having read the comments of other reviewers (thanks, guys!), I knew what I was getting into with the typos. I am a real VB beginner and just love the way the book walks you step-by-step through what seems to me to be a pretty sophisticated application. It covers a very wide variety of tasks, along with giving the reader a good understanding of the application development process.

But, boy is it frustrating trying to debug the code! And, you can't look at the app on the included CD, because it has incorrect path names embedded in the files, so you can't open the project files.

Despite all of that, it's the only book of its kind that I have found--an excellent learning tool, not just another reference book to read. You'll really learn how to develop the application, design the user interface, write the code, and more about debugging than you may have wanted.