Peter Norton's Guide to Visual Basic 6

By Peter Norton

This guide teaches readers how to use Visual Basic to create powerful applications, without all the technical jargon. It provides a hands-on overview of the entire programming environment exploring... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672310546
• ISBN13: 9780672310546
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

The book is good for studying with instructor

I would recommend this book for studying with instructor, not by yourself. It introduces some of the concepts in a rather quick manner without giving you the in-depth introduction to the topic. I taught couple of people VB and I find that Norton's is very helpful for the students, but as I have mentioned, you need instructor's guidance with it.

Great introduction to web development

This book is fairly good overall, and the two chapters on web development are very well done with clear examples of a useful nature. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an introduction to the subject.

Not the one stop VB bible that you would expect

Overall I thought the book was ok. It occassionally jumps and makes a simple subject confusing, but it does go into detail in several topics. The book is pretty good if you already have any type of programming experience, but I would not recommend it for someone who has never programmed..get a "Dummies" book and save Norton's for later.

Learn VB4 and object oriented programmig concepts.

Norton's VB4 code examples in this book enables a person with a Basic programming background to quickly gain an intermediate understanding of Object Oriented Programming concepts. Norton leads you through the code examples beginning with detailed explinations of what the code does and progresses from a "beginner" status to an "intermediate" understanding. In the process, he covers many important VB4 keywords, programming techniques, and builds code examples that can be used be used and modified either as building blocks for your own programs or from which to experiment. I carefully studied Norton's book and examples page by page over a period of about a month, and was able to begin developing my own software thereafter. Only a few advanced topics using database objects and certain OCX controls required the Professional version. I am now ready for advanced topics.