Visual Basic 6 from Scratch (Scratch Series)

by Gabriel Oancea and Robert P. Donald

Visual Basic From Scratch is designed to walk novice programmers through the analysis, design and implementation of a functioning application using Visual Basic. You will learn all the critical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789721198
• ISBN13: 9780789721198
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Que Pub
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Best Second Book for VB Concepts and Code

I'm a technical school instructor and used 4 different books to teach the first course in VB before an outside instructor gave me this book. The concepts that are so very abstract and hard to understand are explained extremely well with great examples and in simple terms. The format is an excellent one for instruction. You may want to also work through a book that completes several different projects before you tackle this one. But when you do, this book will pull it together for you and take you further into the code world of business which is were most of the work programmers have generates from.

Useful

This book can refresh what you've forgotten, teach what you don't know or challenge a pro to re-think how to do things. You build a complete application from the ground up, which lends to putting the concepts you learn to use in the workplace. This is a very practical book and the author is a gifted teacher.

A great start to finish programming exercise

This book is not just for beginners. If you've learned VB before, but had little or no real world experience this is a good refresher exercise. I like the way the book encapsulates one complete application which is easy to learn yet robust in it's complexity. There was just enough of an intro to classes, SQL, database connectivity, etc. to make it interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who is simply looking for a not-too-easy/not-too-hard real-world programming exercise. I'll be looking for more books in this series.

A MUST READ FOR SERIOUS VISUAL BASIC STUDENTS!

I wholeheartedly agree with Joe Ward and Chuck Easttom. This is an EXCELLENT book for learning Visual Basic. I am giving this book a FIVE STAR rating based on the challenging, real world application developed chapter by chapter, step by step throughout the book. Before I espouse its additional virtues, I must comment on the poor quality of the proofreading and the lack of thorough testing for the code in the project. On several occassions, when I went to run the application at the points suggested by the authors, I came up with errors. After double and triple checking my code to absolutely match the code in the book, I ran the project again and received the same error. I then cut and pasted the code from the CD into my project and received the same error again. I then ran the project from the CD version and still got the same error. "Perhaps" something on my computer is out of whack or I am still overlooking an error in the code that I wrote. However, I am still trying to find the cause of the errors!I have read and completed the exercises in approximately 10 Visual Basic books. The project in this book is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PROJECT in any Visual Basic book that I am aware of. Although most of the material covered is material that I have previously worked with, I am learning nuances and details that have eluded me in the past. (If I could only find the cause of the above mentioned errors I would be elated!) Chapter 13 on Elementary Object-Oriented Concepts greatly enhanced my understanding of working with objects. Chapter 16 on Adding Class Persistence was another gem.Even with the shoddy proofreading, the strengths of the this book and the affordable price tag make this book an excellent value. I highly recommnd this book to anyone who is serious about learning Visual Basic.

Simply the best Visual Basic book for beginners

This book is simply the best book on the market for teaching VB programming techniques to beginners wishing to learn the language. The book will take you through the steps in building a real-world database application. This example is probably the best that the authors could have chosen as the majority (80-90%) of Visual Basic development is database applications. From the first page of the book the reader is learning important things about the VB environment. The book is very easy to read, and key concepts are explained very well (without sounding condescending, a first I believe in the beginners market of books!). All in all, whether you are a junior programmer who wants to learn the techniques used in building a very good VB database application, or a beginner who simply wishes to be proficient enough in VB to look for an entry-level job in the industry, this book is definitely the best one for you.