Ready-To-Run Visual Basicalgorithms [With CDROM]

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.

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.

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".

"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!

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.