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| Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Third Edition
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Author: Diane Zak
Publisher: Course Technology
Release Date: 2006-08-11
ISBN-10: 1418836745
ISBN-13: 9781418836740
List Price: $120.95
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Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Third Edition by the best-selling author, Diane Zak, is designed for a first course in programming. Using the most recent version of the software, Visual Basic 2005, this book teaches individuals how to use Visual Basic applications as they would in a real world setting. Students with no previous programming experience learn how to plan and create their own interactive windows applications. GUI design skills and OOP concepts are emphasized throughout the book.
Great Book!
| Customer Rating: | This book was really great for my VB class. I knew nothing about programming before learning with this book, I actually created my own Web browser that really works after studying this VB title.
Thanks to Diane Zak. |
Great book. easy to follow
| Customer Rating: | | When it comes to programming books I have to say not all are easy to follow, or are the best to get to the point. This book is just like all others to be honest but I needed it for my class. With this book I was able to follow the tutorials very easily and the nice feature is that at the end of the chapters it prints the actual program you where working with and you can compare what you wrote to what it had. This feature also allowed me to go straight to the finished programs on the book and use concepts given in each tutorial for my own programming projects. Sure beats googling the functions and getting bad syntax or bad programming from other users, who can be pros or newbies, you never know what you get when you google it. |
If you want to learn VB, AVOID THIS BOOK!
| Customer Rating: | This book is terrible. If you have no background in programming, you will gain a minimal fluency in Visual Basic. However, I think you would be better off to have bought Visual Basic for Dummies and Teach Yourself Visual Basic in X Days/Weeks. They will give you a much better grounding in the language and you might have saved some significant dollars.
Here's one specific example. The section on reading/writing files only gives instruction on moving the content of a text box to/from a disk file. No instruction at all on moving fixed-block records or on doing any sort of file processing. Granted, most file processing has moved on to databases and table processing, it's still a good skill to know.
Though no CD is provided with this book, you can download all of the sample code from their web site. And this brings up another point. The exercises are little more than taking a previous exercise or sample and adding one or two lines of code. Very lightweight. It seems like these are "feel good" exercises that can be done very quickly rather than exercises that will test your grasp of the subject and use what you've previously learned.
This book is a huge waste of time and money, and if you are attending a college that requires this book, I would complain to as many administrative officials as possible. If your employer is paying for your tuition and offers to buy the book back at what you paid for it, then you're in a good place. And if you have courses that require other books by this author, based on the quality of this book I would scrutinize those other books VERY closely before buying them.
I have been programming since the late 70's in a variety of languages and various versions and incarnations of Microsoft Basic, I have been doing relational database development for over 20 years and have been a Microsoft SQL Server database administrator for over a decade, going back to version 4. I've seen good programming books before, and this isn't one of them unless you're looking for very superficial knowledge. If you're going to be earning your living coding VB, this book is a waste of time and money.
If I could give it zero stars, I would. |
Excellent book for beginners
| Customer Rating: | I am using this book as a textbook for a course at a community college. Like some of the other reviewers, at first, I was disappointed by lack of CD accompanying this book. However, having gone through about half of the book, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I was force to type in all of the code myself in doing the exercises. This is an excellent book for a beginner who is learning to code. It explains everything and does not take anything for granted.
My only complaint against this book is that it does not provide correct answers to the the questions and exercises at the end of each section of the chapter. However, I have still given this 5 stars. |
Not a suitable textbook for my class
| Customer Rating: | In the summer of 2008, I am scheduled to teach an introductory class in programming with Visual Basic at the college level. Therefore, when I examined this book, it was for possible use as a textbook in the class. Within that context, I found the book deficient.
The word visual in Visual Basic must be taken seriously when you are considering a textbook. So much of the execution of the operations needed to develop an application is based on navigation, so illustrations are essential. Compared to other books, this one has significantly fewer illustrations. Most of the instruction is textual rather than visual. There are questions and exercises at the end of the chapters, but few (if any) that I would consider worthy of being a programming assignment. Many of them are based on completing partial solutions or altering solutions that have already been coded. Therefore, there is a decided lack of rigor.
For these reasons, I rejected this book as a usable textbook for my course.
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