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| Authors | Alka R. Harriger, Susan K. Lisack, John K. Gotwals, Kyle D. Lutes |
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| Published | April 15th, 2000 |
| Manufacturer | Prentice Hall |
| Media Type | Paperback |
| List Price | $81.00 |
| Our Price | $81.00 |
| Used Price | $14.00 |
| Collectors Price | $17.00 |
| Sales Rank | 101628 |
| Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| Average Rating | 4.00 |
| Record Updated | July 31st, 2005 at 5:24 pm PDT |
| Lookup ID | 0130165336-4008 |
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One of the Best (5 stars)
This is one of the best textbook for Visual Basic 6 programming, for MIS students or professionals. It is easy to follow and designed for self-starters. The reference materials in the Appendix A-C are very handy and useful. I have used this book for my introduction to Visual Basic, at a few colleges.
Warning! (1 stars)
This book does NOT teach object based event driven programming of VB6. This book teaches code based 1960's structured programming in a VB5 environment. Unfortunately the authors do not know VB6 code. This book is a VB6 desert.
Excellent Balance between Theory and Practice (5 stars)
I'm using this book to teach an introduction to computer programming using Visual Basic. (I also have 20 years practical experience in information systems.) I selected this book over several others because of its clear presentation of topics balanced with excellent suggestions for writing good program code.
For example:
* always use OPTION EXPLICIT
* specify BYREF or BYVAL when passing variables ,
The textbook is chuck full of practical programming advise which applies not only to Visual Basic, but other programming languages as well (example - see the section on data validation).
At the end of each chapter the authors do a case study which not only illustrates the concepts introduced in that chapter, but applies a mini-development methodology: Analyze the problem; Design the interface (GUI); Design the logic; Code and test the programs; and document the program / project.
The program code provided with the textbook runs cleanly.
In some places, the text could use additional examples to illustrate ideas. It could also introduce ADO as the database access method. But these are minor issues that could be addressed in a second edition. It's my hope that the authors consider doing a comparable textbook for the new VB.Net language.