by Richard Mansfield
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- This valuable and inexpensive resource is ideal for anyone who is new to programming and wants to learn the basics of Visual Basic without being overwhelmed by the complicated Visual Studio integrated development environment
- This back-to-basics book covers getting started with the featured "Starter Kits," learning practical programming , and developing applications
- Also shows how to use VB Express Edition with database and Web Programming
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Whiney Gibberish, 2008-03-26
The most incoherent, slapped together, piece of garbage ever to be called a book. This guy sholdn't be allowed to write anything anymore, including his name.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Battle Lines Are Drawn On This One!, 2007-12-08
You know when you find a book with only very high and very low reviews that you are likely to love it or hate it. Most programming books are very detail/left brain oriented. Not surprising as the majority of programmers are as well. A few are right brain/big picture based. Either can be written at an introductory or advanced level. The problem is that if a left brain person reads a right brain type book they will hate it and vice versa. This book is one of the big picture/just what you need at the moment right brain books. This had also been the orientation and market positioning of VB since it's inception until .net and had made it the most used programming language going. Along the way the author does take many pot shots at Microsoft moving VB so far away from it's roots with .net. This move has indeed caused VB to lose ground in the market. Programmer thinking would appear to be "If the new VB is this hard to learn, I might as well work in another language that pays more." If shots at Microsoft bother you, you will have a problem with this book. The author feels that Microsoft has moved VB back towards it's roots with the Express edition. This would appear to be true.
One major slam this book has gotten is the lack of full blown line by line projects. Given the orientation of the book, this is probably a valid complaint. A right brainer might be oriented towards "Just give me the main building blocks, let me put them together the way I want, and discover the others later when I need them." This approach would likely leave everyone else stuck.
As someone who taught programming for over 10 years and now works in industry building data mining tools (primarily using MS products), I am very impressed with the content that WAS included in this book.
I believe that the addition of a couple more short end to end examples early on and a bit of moderation of the MS bashing (though justified) would have greatly expanded the position of this book as a mainstream "one stop shopping" introductory text. As it is, it is a great suppliment to one of the more dry "cookbook" type offerings that are out there everywhere.
Bruce Kirkpatrick
MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, OCP, ...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 No Examples?!?!, 2007-04-18
The book is great a explaining the items, but there are no examples to practice what you learn. I have always liked for dummies books, but this one lost my respect.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Don't buy this book, 2007-04-16
The author is mainly interested in slamming Microsoft and object-oriented programming. Unfortunately, he never gets off this soapbox and gets around to teaching anyone how to write a complete program using VB Express. A complete and disappointing waste of time and money. I will most certainly avoid works by this author in the future.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
This book is for VB6 users, 2007-03-17
Buy this book
If you are
1) VB6 users
2) VB enthusiasts
3) old age VB fanatics
4) never care for C/C++ or Java and want to stick to Visual Basic only
Else
not recommended....
If you simply want to learn the new user interface of VB8 (Visual Studio 2005 version) and see what you can do with the upgraded ToolBox items, I recommend Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (Book and CD edition) Wallace Wang explains much better about what VB2005 version can do without unnecessary information.
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