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Title: Visual Basic 6 How to Program by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem R. Nieto ISBN: 0-13-456955-5 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 04 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $63.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.13 (55 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very valuable to the serious student
Comment: This is not a book with big pictures and lots of redundant information: it's packed with valuable information, extremely well structured and geared towards the needs of the beginner as well as the more advanced student. Each chapter is preceded by an introduction to the respective topic followed by programming projects exemplifying the use of commands, procedures, data types, etc. It is rounded off by concise recap of the material covered. All programming examples are supplied on the accompanying CD ROM which also includes - lo and behold! - a MS VISUAL BASIC 6.0 Working Model Edition as a FREEBIE. So you do not even have to have your own Visual Basic Programming environment in order to do all the exercises and try out the examples given in the book. Algorithms and theoretical background are supplied where necessary and just add to the fun of learning. A wealth of good tips is summarized for each chapter under the headings of "Common Programming Errors", "Good Programming Practices", "Software Engineering Observations" and "Testing and Debugging". The practical hands-on approach to programming of the book is topped off by self-review exercises at the end of each of the 21 chapters for which solutions are supplied and discussed adequately to make them a true learning experience. More challenging exercises are offered to the more ambitious student. This is one of the most instructive and comprehensive books on Visual Basic I have ever had a chance to lay my hand upon. Highly recommendable!
Rating: 1
Summary: Confuses you even more
Comment: The authors take a subject that's not horribly difficult and make it dautingly difficult in this book. The examples they use are NOT real-world examples that anyone would understand. For example, to explain recursion, their two examples involve factorials and Fibonacci numbers. May I remind them that this is not a book on math and Visual Basic? I had to first learn what Fibonacci numbers were and then try to understand the example. I am unfortunately required to read this book as part of a class and am finding myself reading other books to try to understand what this book is saying. Also, key terms aren't in bold, and the way the book is presented is in reverse order than it should be. The process of VB programming involves first creating the user interface and then the coding behind it. They introduce the coding first and the interface in the middle of the book. I am really struggling to read this and I have a master's degree, work in this general area, and have good reading and vocabulary skills. Why they even thought this book would be applicable to anything for anyone is beyond me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Intro but bulky...
Comment: This book was on the required list for a class on programming I recently completed (apparently some schools are avoiding using VB.NET in intro classes due to its added complexity). I had always wanted to check out a Deitel book, but the bone-crushing price drove me away more than once. Luckily I was forced into buying it for my class.
This is a solid book that will teach you everything you need to know to get started writing simple to somewhat complex VB6 code. The book begins with a history of Visual Basic and how it fits into programming in general. Then you're off and diving right into the VB Development Environment and by chapter 3 you've written a simple program. The book gains in complexity from that point on, but at a slow enough pace to take it all in. In fact, sometimes the pace seems stifling.
If you're an impatient person I would avoid this book. It's over 900 very thick pages long and sometimes getting through a single chapter feels like an entire book in itself (chapter 8 "Strings, Dates, and Times" felt this way for me).
If you're patient and you learn like a sponge, then be prepared to learn bunches and bunches from this book. By the time you're through you'll even have learned about advanced data structures like linked lists and trees. Getting through this book, despite its academic bulk, feels like a real accomplishment.
The exercises at the end of each chapter are invaluable for solidifying concepts and for getting your hands wet and sloppy with code. Definitely don't skip these, you'll learn more from working through them then you will reading the text.
It should be noted that the book is not designed for individual study - it is meant to be a textbook for a classroom setting (they say as much in the preface). I think it's most appropriate in that setting (it also has a textbook price).
Regardless of it's girth, this book will teach you enough VB6 to program applications of decent complexity. What you won't get is a lesson on API calls or Direct X, but the book is thick enough already!
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Title: C++ How to Program (3rd Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel ISBN: 0130895717 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 03 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $78.67 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step-By- Step. by Michael Halvorson ISBN: 1572318090 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem R. Nieto ISBN: 0130293636 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Developing GIS Solutions With MapObjects and Visual Basic by Bruce A. Ralston ISBN: 0766854388 Publisher: OnWord Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $53.95 |
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Title: Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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