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Learn to Program with Visual Basic .NET is a popular introduction to programming, now revised for the .NET version of Visual Basic. No previous knowledge is assumed and the informal writing style makes it easier for beginners to get started.
This book does not simply show how to write code. Instead, the author uses the example of a shopkeeper who needs a computer program for his customers to use. This introduces what the author calls the System Development Life Cycle, starting with investigation and analysis, and moving on to design, development, implementation and maintenance. The book goes on to explain what a computer program is, and then shows how to work with Visual Basic by first building a user interface, and then adding code to get the required functionality. Special topics such as data, loops, arrays and file operations are described in the context of the example project, with imagined students asking questions so that each one can be carefully answered. The closing chapters deal with error handling and some advanced topics like using the Windows registry, giving readers all they need to build a complete application.
Although it used Visual Basic .NET, this title makes no mention of object-oriented programming, nor does it touch on Internet or Web programming at all. Perhaps for these reasons, it feels a little old-fashioned. The advantage is that it keeps things very simple, and successfully teaches the essentials of building a working Visual Basic project. --Tim Anderson
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This guide teaches readers how to program by using a classroom setting and dialogue between students and the teacher to explain important programming and visual basic concepts. Nearly 100 questions are asked and answered in each chapter in the form of a running dialogue between the instructor (John Smiley) and the students. The book anticipates questions students have - and answers scores of others they never thought to ask.
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