( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 16 2008
At first I was completely put off by the other reviewers bashing this book. Then a friend of mine bought it and I got a chance to finally hold it in the flesh. I agree with most reviews, but I think that this badly organized book has its place. For anyone willing to put up with the horribly layout of the book, some hidden gems can be found. For example, I've never found any other author outlaying the basic for printing from VB6 as easily and clear as stated in this book. Also, you can find a couple of useful excerpts (not full chapters, mind you) for the young programmer. I think that many of the VB6 crowd (well, programmers in general) are a bit harsh: some are completely newbies regarding programming skills and some are know-it-all geeks. For them this book is almost completely useless. But for me, having a 15+ years plus in programming (BASIC and FORTRAN) this book is worth the money (barely), specially a used one. I'd give it 1 stars for the many examples, 1 for the print section, 1 for the hand-holding and half a star for many funny moments throughout the book.
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Posted: Jun 5 2007
This book is well written and quite informative. I has topics including Welcome to Visual Basic, Working with Visual Basic, Managing Controls, Creating Menus, Printing VB Output, and much much more. You can be Working with Forms (Day 11) an dlearn how to place text on forms. You can FOrmat with Print and learn about Positioning the Print Method. Get this book and read it and learn and just do it. Don't think about it - just do it. Make a Visual Basic program and connect to a PostgreSQL database running in a Linux server. Don't waste you money buying ther people programs ort getting "consultants" to do you work. You can do it with Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days by Greg Perry. Yes, this book does not show you a whole lot of BASIC programming. This book is oriented to using the controls of Visual Basic. However, in Day 5, it does go into Numberc Data such as Byte, Integer, Long, It also has operators such as add and multiple and how to concatenation. Day 6 has logical operators, If statements, Select Case, Do Loop, For Loop. To lean the proper way to program, be it c or BASIC, you need Herb Schildt's book on c programming. Then use those concepts to create BASIC programs. Tne use this book to create Visual Basic programs. You can do it but you need to learn and practice. This book is actually quite self contained, but the prerequisite is to have some programming background. Whatever yuo do, stay away from all books from Laura LeMay. Those books are really weird!
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( 1 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 22 2006
the author did post his errata online and this book isn't really all that bad for those who'd like a decent intro to Visual Basic unlike what the book's haters would like to have you believe.
