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First there'e the misleading title - COMPLETE CONCEPTS & TECHNIQUESOnce I went through this book, I found it very easy & thought I was really a PRO in VB6.I got a rude shock when I actually met my programming friends: If you think you are a pro and can create useful applications with this book, you cannot be more WRONG. This book teaches you nothing about VB6 language. All it does is teaching you to layout a nice form & some extremely elementary code.I personally do not think you can create anything useful based on the knowledge from this book.
I teach Advanced Visual Basic. Gotwals / Paperback / Prentice Hall, and I like it very much. All the students learn is to copy its forms and its code.
All the students I got in Advanced Visual Basic had absolutely no idea about programming. Harriger,Susan K. I inherited students who took the prerequisite course, Visual Basic from instructors who used this book.
Whatever this book is, it cannot serve as a good textbook.For my Advanced Visual Basic, I use Chapters 7 through 12 and appendices of "Computer Programming with Visual Basic 6: A Problem-Solving Approach with Cdrom" by Alka R. All they could do was draw good looking forms with some controls on them and copy the code from Shelly and Cashman book. It does not provide challenging, unsolved programming projects for the students.
Lisack,John K. Frankly, Chapters 1-6 of the Harriger et al book would be much better for the first course.
Trust me. The authors must have had elementary school children in mind while editing.
Only people who either want to learn a VERY little bit of VB or have cash to burn (in which case you should e-mail me for some ideas) should buy this book. The purchase of this book was a horid mistake.
The pace is way to slow, even for the newest newbie. There are other books which have a much lager, more usefull, scope.
The book does hold your hand throughout the proccess, but it never lets go. It's more of a kids picture book than a textbook.
don't waste your money.
I am using this book along with a university course in VB6. I find the book helpful and clear, although maybe TOO clear. I mean, once you learn really basic simple stuff like how to draw buttons and place items on a form, I think that they should then drop the painful step-by-step instructions on how to do those things once you get to later chapters and move on to the CODE (the new stuff). Other than that I find the book very helpful.
The best thing about this book is that it brings you from the basic levels of VB to the more advanced topics. This book was extremely useful to me in and out of my Visual Basic class. Now, as I go into my more advanced programming courses, I use this book as a reference. I used it for an intro to programming class in which I found it very easy to use. The book went step by step with pictures that basically spelled out exactly how I needed to do each task. It is ideal if you want to learn VB on your own, and as a text book I give an A+. I recommend this to the beginner to intermediate programmer.
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