Rating:  - If not for the book, at least for the CDs.
The book comes with the CDs for the compiler. The software for Visual Basic is 100$ by itself, while the book gives it to you for free.
The book is better than the previous version. It has a few more examples, more indepth, and a lot of the errors have been corrected. All the examples worked in the compiler (which can be rare for many programming books). The book offers all the basic skills to start programming. It is a detailed book from elementary to intermediate programming. It was a great introductory book for my college.
Even though Visual Basic and the authors make coding simple, it seems that not all people are cut-out to be programmers. There isn't much programming simpler than this.
Rating:  - Expensive text with a vague introduction to VB.NET
It is not my nature to write a negative `book report', but this book (and the Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic.NET - by the same author(s)) does really not deserve the price. This text is full of poorly written vague explanations, the OOP terminology and coverage is watered down to bare minimum. The exercise section in this text do need more work to be understandable and to be more generic to work on the Visual Studio 2003 environment.
The code reviews in general are superficial and unorganized. The reader/student is presented with chunks of poorly explained material like in the database section for example, where very little detail is given on the how, why questions, that goes beyond the mechanics of clicking and dragging data base components.
There are a lot better texts available for a less price.
The "Visual Basic.NET Primer - by Jack Purdum", book is a great, clear introduction to programming and to Visual Basic.NET for far less price.
Rating: - Great Buy
This is a great price for this product. It also makes VB easy to learn. The samples are great. I love this book and software.
Rating: - EXCELLENT
I had to return my first one because the software set was missing but the customer service was the BEST and I got a new one right away. My e-mails were answered the same day and were very polite!
Rating:  - Quality entrey level VB book
Very well written text book on learning VB. The only problem I had was that the source code at the end of the chapter could have been presented in a different way. That is because I am a code junky; if you are into the concepts of programming, well then you might rate this at five stars. The included copy of VB with the book is worth the price alone. Buy this if you need to learn VB.NET or move up from older versions
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