Product DescriptionLearn Visual Basic .NET fast! With Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on designing and developing programs with the newest version of the world's most popular programming language -- in a single weekend!
Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course will have VB .NET would-be programmers coding in fifteen hours. Veteran author Richard Mansfield guides you through the Visual Basic .NET language and tools and enables you to create next-generation applications for the Microsoft.NET Platform. People who want to learn Visual Basic .NET quickly and people who know 'traditional' Visual Basic benefit from Richard's expert coverage of topics that include: The new Visual Basic.NET IDE; Labels, Buttons, Boxes, and Dialogs; Images, Pictures, and Shapes; Procedures, Variables, and Scope; Comparison, Math, and Logical operators; Arrays, Looping, and Branching; Bug fixing; Designing, building, and accessing ADO+ databases; Classes and Objects.
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Rating: - Can't decide who his reader is
My gripe with the book is he can't decide who his reader is. Quite a bit of the time he is writing to the VB programmer moving up to VB.Net. Other times he is writing to the very beginner, going over very basic programming concepts anyone who has done any programming would know (what is a variable?). And at other times, he assumes you know concepts of VB, that the programmer who has never used VB is not familiar with. And he doesn't get into object oriented programming concepts until the last ... Read More
Rating: - Don't buy this book!!!
I bought this book elsewhere for full price. What a mistake that was.
Everything started out fine until I got to lesson 6. The code in the book does not work at ALL- there was also a slight difference in the coding too. What I did not realize was that THIS book was written in 2002. After doing a quick search online and reading the reviews here on Amazon I find out that the book's examples are geared to the BETA version of NET not the RETAIL (Final) version!(and that others had ... Read More
Rating: - buggy book
i bought this book to get a quick start with vb.net having c, c++ and mfc experience, i manged to get the examples to work, but i can see a beginner spedning hours trying to figure out why the sample code in lesson 6 does not work. this books practice bad programming technics in general.
Rating: - Skips around too much
While the book is at a level I can understand, the author spends too much time saying "Click on this, but we won't cover it in depth until Chapter XX". It's very confusing skipping around like this and in some cases he says try some code in one chapter that will still be in your project later on when he asks you to try something else, but doesn't mention how to deal with the code you tried 3 chapters ago...Delete it or add on..if add on how do you do it?
Rating: - Sample code doesn't work
Claims to teach you VB.NET in just 15 hours. In session 6 of 30, the book give you sample code that doesn't work. I spent hours reviewing for _my_ mistake and hours more reviewing web sites and newsgroups. Found the example given simply will not work, and if it did would be very poor programming practice.
Also, in order to compress all of VB concepts into a small time, the book intersperses topics into completely unrelated sections. It made reviewing and debugging very dificult. After ... Read More
- Don't buy this book!!!
