Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

by Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome

Book Overview

Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2008 as quickly and easily as possible. There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal: You're a beginner to programming and you've chosen Visual Basic 2008 as the place to start. That's a great choice Visual Basic 2008 is not only easy to learn, it's also fun to use and very powerful. You can program in another language but you're...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470191341
• ISBN13: 9780470191347
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 876 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

easy to fallow

To start learning visual basic 2008 it is very useful,easy to fallow for the beginner point of view. This book it is complete with topics and examples of the language, it is all you need to make it to the next level.

Best Beginner's Book For Visual Basic I've Found

Programming is not my cup of tea. I've been forced into it through my decision to use asp.net to develop my website. This stuff is difficult. I've tried several VB books and this is clearly the best for me. It provides plenty of exercises, is well written and it provides alot of information. Given the languages complexity I think you're better off with a nice hearty text and this is. It's not perfect - I have yet to find a book that doesn't quickly plunge the reader into the deep end - but it gives a laymen like me my best chance of mastering this subject. I must agree with the other reviewer, though; this book introduces important concepts far too late in the book. For instance you're already using classes and objects long before you have any idea what they are or how to form them. This means you are essentially just copying the text - making it mind bendingly difficult to figure out what's going on. However it seems to me that every VB book I've read does this! And that this is the best of the bunch with regards to clarity - as muddled as it often was. I think most authors forget that the most difficult part of learning to program is simply figuring out what to put next. One you figuring what kind of code should go next (function, method, constructor, etc.) learning how to write actually write it is fairly simple. I'm really surprised at how little most authors anticipate the needs of their readers. All the books I've read have failed fairly miserably in this regard. The vaunted Murach books with their rather regimented structure and large print simply don't provide the room to walk you through a series of examples. They're fine organizational tools but for me, at least, they really lack as teaching manuals. This book is more about training and I'm surprised the Murach books get so much more attention than it does. I would love to check out Deitel - they're just too expensive for me.