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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days has all the earmarks of a series designed in-house. This is a Bad Thing. It means the book contains elements that obviously came from compromises by people sitting through endless meetings and eventually settling on the most stubborn person's ideas because, well, everyone was tired and wanted to go home and watch TV. And none of those people actually have read any computer books, let alone tried to learn a programming language from one.
The in-house style earmarks are aplenty: the ubiquitous Do and Do Not sidebars; Note and Tip boxes; the New Term paragraphs; Summaries; Q&As; Workshops; end-of-chapter quizzes and exercises. Gadzooks. Whatever happened to an experienced programmer trying to explain the best way to learn something in well-written, down-to-earth, right-to-the-point prose?
On the plus side, this book does have you create your first program on page 24 (day one), which is pretty quick. Though it's not really a program; it's a "project", or something that Visual Basic can whip toge