An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Visual Basic.Net

This book is excellent for beginners. If you've never programmed with OOP before, this will give you a good overview of the project, including planning, from start to finish. It was this book that gave me the basic overview i have today. I wish i know of something that went even more in depth. If you already know VB.NET, UML, and OOP this book is for the very beginner. But as a starter, it is excellent. I also liked Sams Teach Yourself Object Oriented Programming in 21 days. It is also great. It explains OOP concepts in more detail. This book teaches you how to do the programming, the Sams book teaches you the reason for OOP. If you are beginner these two books would be great to start with. Don't pay attention to the Java in the Sams book. It is not really a java book. It really is an OOP book.

I have several OOP books that I put aside because they became fustrating and/or clumsy. This book has made it possible to pickup those once forgotten books. A big plus for this book is that all the examples work and you can download the chapter examples from Apress! The user friendly analogies make it an easy read. The only resistance I experienced was the free personal UML modeler that was referenced in the first part of the book. The first pass through these chapters I followed along by creating the diagrams by hand. After reading the rest of the book, I spent half a day learning the software and completing the chapter examples. For me, this author paints a pretty good big picture of OOP! My other books are now helping with the details;)

This book is very well written. The material is organized well and the information is presented in easily digestable pieces.The book gives a nice overall background of OOP then shows how to implment it (on a very basic level) in VB.NET. I highly recommend this book for VB programmers who have never incorporated OOP in their programs.

If you are new to Object-Oriented Programming this is a great introduction the OOP features of VB.NET. Concepts are clearly explained and there is no assumption that you know the jargon used in OOP. A good first book for .NETer newbies who found VB6 classes too complicated or too clumsy to use.

Dan Clark provides an easy to read reference for those of us beginning with Visual Basic. Starting with an intro on OOP and OOP design really laid a nice foundation for the rest of the book. The hands-on activities really helped cement the concepts. Without a doubt, I got my money's worth with this book.