Visual Basic 6 Complete

This books is bits and pieces taken from several others by the same publisher. I've found several of the examples and subjects useful, including those working with accessing databases including Access files from VB. If you like the style of any of these "chapters" you can find the original text and look for THAT full book. The best feature for programmers of earlier Basic language forms is the Reference at the back listing most of the Basic command functions, with syntax and explanations if not examples thereof. That feature has saved me lots of time. If you know Basic from earlier computers, this book will be helpful on that regard alone, as most books twice its price range omit such a reference guide...

This is one of those book that likes to hang around your desk (like your cat) while you programming. It makes quite a good reference book on VB 6, and it doesn't cost you an arm and and a leg either. For the content of this book, I give it 4 stars. But consider the price in which it is selling for, it deserves one more star.

After wading through and returning around 8 VB books in the past couple months, it didn't take long to realize this one is quite a value! This book is a pleasure to read and explains nearly everything in detail. After reading only 100 of the 1,000 pages, I had already easily understood many things the other books confusingly presented. I like hands-on learning and this book fits the bill at every turn. Much of the hands-on stuff is cumulative, in that you start with a simple program and keep adding to it. This makes learning the interactivity of VB elements a lot easier. Best value I've seen.

I have finally found a book that progresses at MY rate. I find that other "Teach Yourself" books usualy stick to basics for 50% of the book, and then dable on a couple of advanced features of VB. Hence you usualy can't use a "Teach Yourself" book as a reference guide, even if they do give you somewhat of a solid base in VB.THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT!!! It explains concepts concisely, clearly and with interest (not dry). This means that many concepts can be conveyed in the shortest space of time. This also allows the reader to progress very quickly to in depth advanced features, which is great if you are already familiar with VB, or other languages. Because of the in depth coverage of advanced VB features, the book is also a very good reference guide. Because the book is so cheap, it must be one of the best investments a person, or company, can have.There are only a small number of drawbacks to the book. Most of these drawbacks occur due to the fact that that several books are combined into this book. This means that various writing and code styles appear which takes a little getting use to.This is definitely one of the GOOD books!!

I have purchased more than ten books on Visual Basic programming in the last few years. This inexpensive, 1,000 page guide is the best, most concise guide for beginning programmers that I have seen. For the price, you'd be crazy to pass this up.