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Learn to Program with Visual Basic Examples: 100 Questions and Answers
 
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Learn to Program with Visual Basic Examples: 100 Questions and Answers [Illustrated] (Mass Market Paperback)

by John Smiley (Author)
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Product details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 485 pages
  • Publisher: WROX Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190274506X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902745060
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,533,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis

This book is ideal for readers who have just started programming in Visual Basic, and who have read an introductory text. It builds programming skills by guiding the reader through 100 examples of the most common Visual Basic questions that beginners ask.


From the Author

Don't write your first VB program without reading this book!
Picture this...

You've just read an introductory book on Visual Basic (hopefully mine!), and you're starting work on your very first Visual Basic program.

A little bit into the process, and you realize that you'd like to change the Color of a button on your form. You change the BackColor property, but nothing happens!

Or...

It's your first day of work at your new Visual Basic programming job, and your new boss casually mentions that you should change the mouse pointer when the user moves the mouse over a disabled checkbox!

Or...

You send a friend the Visual Basic program you've just written, but when they run it all they see are error messages about missing DLL's.

In all three of these cases, you can search through your Visual Basic documentation, you can check out online help, you can search the newsgroups, even call Microsoft but...

You can get the answers to these questions, and 97 others, quickly, painlessly, and enjoyably in my new book.

The 100 questions that I answer in this book are the 100 questions that beginner Visual Basic programmers have asked me over the course of the last 5 years of teaching Visual Basic. Even if you've been programming in Visual Basic for a while, I know that you'll still find this book useful

I can guarantee you that as soon as you start to write a Visual Basic program of your own, you'll be asking one of these questions yourself.

And for those of you who read my first book, Learn to Program with Visual Basic, I can guarantee you that this is not just another dry question and answer book. You'll be entertained as well!


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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A huge waste of time, 13 Jun 2000
By A Customer
This book is based on the idea that you are taking part in a "virtual classroom" full of cheesy people learning VB. Huge numbers of pages are wasted with meaningless chat between members of the class, and there is no structure to the actual VB stuff. The book might be of use to someone who has never used a computer before and wants to learn VB, but for anyone who has any IT knowledge, this book will be a waste of time.

Having bought this book and its companion, I now find myself having to buy a book that contains concise, structured, info on how to write code and develop applications - which is what I expected from the Learn to Program... books.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Useless if you have Smiley's first book, 2 Dec 1999
By Federico De Masi (USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book after having finished Smiley's first book. I was looking for something that could answer question that appeared while doing my first programs. Very few of them were there. ANyway, it's always good to have some basic reference on hand.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Answers many questions which confront every new programmer., 20 Jun 2000
By A Customer
Every newcomer to programming, irrespective of the programming language encouters many typical questions. The more enthusiastic the programmer, the greater the number of questions. This book, almost casually, covers a wide range of those typical questions and provides the answers to them.

As in his first book, the author does not delve at all deeply nto any subject, but provides sufficient information to enable the reader to progress down the software develoment road. The beginner will find it encouraging that he can identify with the examples which are covered in the book and fortified with the additional knowledge that the solutions bring, the reader's progress in acquiring Visual Basic programming skills is accelerated.

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