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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 24 Hours by James Foxall ISBN: 0672320800 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09
Rating: 3
Summary: Basics For Beginners, But Get The "Starter Kit" Version
Comment: This is a pleasant book (but now the wrong edition) for the beginner with no prior VB experience. Teaching is done via many VERY SIMPLE projects, and these cannot be done without Visual Studio. You want to buy the latest version "Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 (VB .NET) in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit" which includes a DVD with a trial version of the latest Visual Studio.
Projects are all for Windows Forms projects including one session on automating Excel (from a Windows form). Visual Basic.NET's most exciting use for many is for the code behind ASP.NET Web Forms when developing applications with a web browser user interface. The author does mention such use very briefly but offers no examples. There are many fine introductory books at this same beginner level on VB.NET and ASP.NET; so if web applications are where you are headed, this book will not be the best choice.
This book might be nice easy step up for someone moving from the Excel macro (VB for Applications, VBA) world into more general applications. If you are a professional but new to VB, the book can be completed in a week end; and you can then pass it on to a kid just getting into programming. As noted by another reader, the description of the language is too brief to give this book value as a reference.
Author James Foxall has many books to his credit and writes nicely. For the most part he eschews the silliness of many professionals writing "down" for beginners. There are a surprising number of editing mistakes, but nearly all of the code runs as presented.
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable book for learning VB .Net as a beginner
Comment: I used Mr. Foxall's book "MCSD in a Nutshell, the Visual Basic Exams" as one of my reference books for my MCSD and I like his writing style: stressing the key skills and covering lots of information with reasonable depth. So I bought his new book "SAMS Teach yourself Visual Basic .Net in 24 hour" to learn VB .Net. After I read it, I found that it is a valuable book to learn VB .Net as a beginner. It is also a very good book to learn VB 6.0.
It is a very good book to learn VB .Net with reasonable depth in a short time with comparing the techniques in VB 6.0. If you had some experience in VB programming, and want to learn the skills in VB 6.0 and VB .Net, this is one book for your choice!
Jiqing HU
MCSD (VC++ and VB programmer)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Starter Book
Comment: Those looking to start programming in VB will find this book very useful. The chapters are arranged in a logical manner so that the user will build upon knowledge from previous chapters. The author explains things in easy to understand terms, anyone could learn to start using VB with this book.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours by Joseph Martin, Brett Tomson, Brett Thomson ISBN: 0672321262 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 27 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days by Peter Aitken, Phil Syme ISBN: 0672322366 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours by James D. Foxall, Wendy Haro-Chun ISBN: 0672322870 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days by Duncan Mackenzie, Kent Sharkey ISBN: 0672320665 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 29 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: The Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic. NET by Craig Utley ISBN: 0672322641 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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