Ready-To-Run Visual Basicalgorithms [With CDROM]

by Kenneth R. Stephens and Rod Stephens

All the Visual Basic algorithms you'll ever need and how to use them This book/CD package arms you with a library of powerful algorithms completely implemented in Visual Basic source code. Just as importantly, it shows you how, when, and where to use them . . . or not to use them. It covers classic VB algorithms as well as the latest VB object-oriented techniques for handling just about any design requirement you'll encounter, such as managing data...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471242683
• ISBN13: 9780471242680
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

If You Program in Visual Basic, You'll Really Like This Book

Stacks, queues, linked lists, sparse arrays, balanced trees, numerous sorting algorithms, and much more. If you are now an intermediate level VB programmer, and then you read and understand this book from cover to cover, you will have raised your level of expertise by at least one level. Great stuff in this book - highly recommended.

You won't find better for Visual Basic

It was the first book I took from Rod Stephens and I bought all his other one starting then so it gives you an idea.It might be one of the only one doing algorithms with Visual Basic, but it's well written and you've got them all like all those C books.A must at any point in any serious programming.

Must-Have Reference for Serious VB Programmers

Even if you have been programming in VB for several years, or have taken college-level computer science data structures courses, you need this book.This book goes way beyond simply providing code snippets that you can paste into your VB apps. The author begins by explaining such fundamental algorithm concepts as time and space complexity analysis and the trade-offs between the two. He really focuses on providing an understanding of the "Whys" in addition to the "Hows".Simply put, if you are or aspire to be a serious VB programmer, there are 4 books that you must have by your side at all times: this book, Dan Appleman's "VB Programmer's Guide to the WIN32-API", Bruce McKinney's "Hardcore Visual Basic", and Microsoft's "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide".

Finally!! Dynamic structures in Visual Basic!

"Back to (Visual) Basics" is what this book should be called. It presents those basic ideas of programming - dynamic structures - using VB's classes and objects. It teaches the structures as well as objects as used in VB. Thanks Rod!

Recommended for all serious programmers.

Hats off to Rod Stephens. Finally, there is someone who is more concerned with presenting efficient, crisp, clever algorithms than teaching by-rote procedures. Clear examples are provided on CD-ROM, using the latest OOP techniques available in VB. Even if you never intend to write a B+Tree database or a QuickSort algorithm, this book is a recommended read. It will satisfy your curiosity and introduce you to some seminal algorithms, developed over the years by great thinkers in the fields of computing and mathematics. If this book engages you as it has me, then it will make you a better programmer.