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( 8 of 8 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 7 2003
This is the first VB.Net book I've found that really explains the language. I own about 8 other VB.Net books and I'm constantly asking questions like, "why am I typing ByVal and what does it mean?," or "what's really happening when I call a function?" So many of the books I currently own have left me with too many unanswered questions. I'd be willing to bet that as he wrote this book, Purdum was constantly asking himself what kinds of questions the reader would ask. Every new concept is given a thorough explanation. The book gets very detailed about how things work in VB.Net, but it is written so well it is easly understood by a beginner. Purdum definitely doesn't gloss over anything.If I had to purchase just one VB.Net book as a beginner, this book would be it. I do wish there were more programming exercises, but if you are creative, you can make up your own...
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( 12 of 12 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 2 2003
I would recommend this book to EVERYONE!! I already had a book on VB.NET, and regret that this book wasn't published earlier! The other book that I had on VB.NET had chapters that were as long as 50-70 pages, and very tedious to read. In this book, the author seems to be kind to the reader!! Each chapter is short enough to be interesting, and full of useful information and easily readable - the author has done a great job at explaining the topics with an interesting and engaging tone to the explanations. Each topic is broken down into manageable sizes, so that too much information is not packed into a single chapter making it overwhelming and tedious to read. For example, the concepts of encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism are usually squished into one endless chapter in other books, but this one has three separate chapters on each topic, with detailed information and interesting examples.
