Karl Moore's Visual Basic .Net: The Tutorials

by Karl Moore

Book Overview

Karl Moore's Visual Basic .NET: The Tutorials is a short, all-inclusive "career in a book". It simplifies the complex world of programming so anyone can pick it up and learn in just a few fun hours. The writing style is light and humorous, with simplified analogies introduced to explain more complicated concepts. Moore is a leading industry writer and snior editor behind the popular VB-World site.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159059021X
• ISBN13: 9781590590218
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Totally Amazing. Karl has done it again.

Out of the many VB.NET books I've read thus far, this one is the best. I've talked with Karl many times through email even before this book came out. And he was always willing to help out with code questions and problems. Its the same with his book. Karl takes you on a wonderous journy through the world of Visual Basic .NET like no other can. With humor around every corner to keep you from geting bored to death. Overall an extensive work that covers in depth discussions and code work. A must for any VB.NET programmer.

Beautifully Done!

I'm not new to VB programming, but like many, the transition from VB6 to .NET was not only frustrating, but also downright intimidating. This book does an excellent job of dispelling so many fears of the new platform and beautifully sets developers on the proper path. Every other programming book I've purchased, I inevitably find myself thinking, "Dear God... this is such long reading!" Not so in this case. My only disappointment is that it comes in only one volume. I find myself repeatedly picking it up in hopes of finding one more morsel I may have missed the first time around. Karl Moore's excitement about programming is contagious, his TIPS and HOW-TO's are fantastic, and throughout it all... he proves to us that writing sophisticated applications for the web, windows, or whatever you goal, is really not rocket science after all.

This is THE VB.NET book to own

I've tried, several times over the past ten years, to pick up a book or two and dive into programming. It always starts pretty well, the books do a fairly decent job of describing how to design the user interface. Then a few chapters later they invariably turn the writing over to someone else and it comes out looking like a dictionary. "Here's the IF-THEN-ELSE statement, an incredibly useful tool, go figure out how it works and you'll be a fine programmer." Now, recently I decided to give it another try, don't have a clue why really, but I bought the package, installed it, found the books included with it to be utterly useless, bought the dummies book, found the first half fascinating, and then got dumped into that dark code world once again. With more determination than usual, I searched the web and ran across VBWorld.com and Karl Moore's tutorials there. Learned things about the user interface that the book hadn't even mentioned, and actually had a good time following along. Still, no help with the code though, and as I was walking through the book store one final time before saying goodbye to my latest fling with VB, I saw Karl Moore's name name on a book. Then I saw Tutorials on the same book. After what he had taught me in six simple tutorials on the web I grabbed it without even opening it first! I couldn't be more happy, this book has me convinced now that I'm not too dense to learn this stuff, and I'm having fun following the lessons. Hopefully, if I get addicted enough to programming that I want to learn C++ or C#, I'll be able to find Karl has written a book on those as well.

Karl Moore's Visual Basic .NET

I'm no computer programmer - yet (one of the reasons why I bought this book I guess), but I do own a computer and when I discovered that Karl Moore had written a book tutorial that I could actually hold in my hands, I became rather excited. I've used many of his online tutorials for sometime now, because I find his style of writing very easy to follow. Being one of the first to buy this book no doubt, I've only got half way through the first tutorial, but it's such an easy read and so easy to understand I just had to start writing a review about it. None of your usual technical jargon here, but explanations and tutorials that are written in plain and clear English!For someone starting out in programming (like me), this book has to be a must and well worth the investment (not that it will break the bank). Karl's style of writing is clear and humorous and makes the whole exercise of learning extremely fun. He almost makes a joke out of the whole thing. Within a few minutes of reading the first couple of pages of tutorial, I had a clear understanding of what this .NET framework was all about.I'm off now to continue reading, it's quite addictive. If you ever read this review Karl, well done for writing a tutorial that my father would understand. I already feel as if I know you!All budding programmers...go buy it, you won't be disappointed.