- Paperback: 600 pages
- Publisher: Prentice-Hall; Pap/Cdr edition (Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0137483287
- ISBN-13: 978-0137483280
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 17.8 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,510,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With Microsoft's Visual Basic 5.0 available, this book intends to address the new features and the differences between 5.0 and earlier versions. It covers ActiveX EXEs and DLLs, advanced concepts, and object oriented programming.
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Format:Paperback
I blame this book for having not learn't VB. I decided to buy this book because i'm an experienced programmer and I wanted to get straight into it. The book quite frankly has no head or tail. There is no structure to the book, in short words can't describe how awfull this book is. The one star rating is too good for this book.
Format:Paperback
I have to concur with those disappointed readers. I am an experienced programmer. I have programmed for years with C and GUI tools. I have done object-styled programming in Ada, understand OO concepts and have even done some OOP. I should be the perfect audience, but so far I am at sea with this book.
I have trudged through the first one and a half chapters only, so perhaps my views will be more charitable at the end of the journey, but shouldn't a book like this be accessible and clear right from the start?
I have built a small application -- the walk-through example -- and I have no idea what I did. This is an exaggeration, but I wish to make the point that this exercise seems without much objective. Oh, I have become used to clicking a few buttons, but I have hardly any schema or model in my head of how the objects and properties fit together.
Sorry Gary and Dave -- you clearly have a lot of fans. But I'm not signing up just yet.
I should be keen to receive recommendations from programmers for other books which do the same as this book purports to. (Perhaps something a teensy-bit more analytic?)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
no structure, no map
15 April 1999
Format:Paperback
I have to concur with those disappointed readers. I am an experienced programmer. I have programmed for years with C and GUI tools. I have done object-styled programming in Ada, understand OO concepts and have even done some OOP. I should be the perfect audience, but so far I am at sea with this book.
I have trudged through the first one and a half chapters only, so perhaps my views will be more charitable at the end of the journey, but shouldn't a book like this be accessible and clear right from the start?
I have built a small application -- the walk-through example -- and I have no idea what I did. This is an exaggeration, but I wish to make the point that this exercise seems without much objective. Oh, I have become used to clicking a few buttons, but I have hardly any schema or model in my head of how the objects and properties fit together.
Sorry Gary and Dave -- you clearly have a lot of fans. But I'm not signing up just yet.
I should be keen to receive recommendations from programmers for other books which do the same as this book purports to. (Perhaps something a teensy-bit more analytic?)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Still my favorite general VB book
24 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
Even though I'm now using VB6 & I've bought several of the newer books, I still think this is overall the best general book on VB available.
My main complaint has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather with the marketingspeak on it which states that it's for "experienced programmers." In practice, that statement has probably done more harm then good, since advanced programmers will be disappointed by the more basic areas of the book.
This is the ideal book for anyone who is either an experienced programmer new to VB or an intermediate VB programmer struggling with some of the more advanced topics.
Advanced users will also get much out of the book, but know ahead of time that the first 150-200 pages are made up of a conscise but basic introduction that you'll want to skip over (though you'll probably find it a useful reference from time to time).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Overall an Excellent Book
16 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
I have read somewhere around 15 books on Visual basic and this would have to be within the top 5. It covers many techniques and features that I have not seen anywhere else. I would highly recommend this book for someone that is either experienced or has read a lot of books on VB and has a good grasp of all of the concepts. I would not recommend this book for beginners.
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