Visual Basic 6 Programming Explorer: Blue Book [With *]

This book is far better than most of its direct competitors.The good features of this book, rarely seen in other books, are: readable, lively, humour-laced, intelligent writing style; almost complete lack of technical errors and contentious statements (that is very rare in IT-related books); mostly-interesting and realistic problems are tackled as examples; concise and useful demonstration of error handling; good guidance on using the debugging tools; just-right discussion of Windows as an event-driven, object-oriented environment and how you need to think as a VB developer.Amongst other features: it has good range in technical content from beginner to intermediate; it flows well from topic to topic; it covers the basics of the VB development environment; VB structures, keywords and how to use them; object-orientation theory Lite; good contents and index sections; reasonably consistent use of object/variable naming schemes throughout.Sure, it misses some topics and overdoes others but its good on the fundamentals and intermediates.I am a lecturer in tertiary education and use this on the course I teach. I've considered many books as student texts and this is the best for my purposes, as an adjunct to my teaching. Students certainly enjoy the style and content.This book is part of the Blue-Black-Gold series that Coriolis run for VB. I haven't seen the Black book, but I strongly recommend the Gold Book. Keep printing them, Coriolis.

By the time I made it to the end of this book I knew how to program VB 6. I was used to Java but new to the world of Visual Basic, a huge and complex world at that. To take on the task of writing a tutorial that can cover such a topic must have been daunting indeed, but this author has done it really well! The book was perfect for me because it assumed I knew nothing about VB, yet didn't bog me down with general programming fundamentals. The code exercises touch most all the areas a professional programmer is likely to encounter on the job. He both holds your hand through the exercises and lets you make some steps on your own, which I thought worked very well. If you want to learn Visual Basic 6, buy this book and work it through to the end...it's worth it.

This book is an outstanding introduction to Visual Basic. Itis designed for someone who is already familiar with some programmingskills but no knowledge of Microsoft's Visual Basic environment. The lessons progress rapidly and are taught with easy to follow programming examples that demonstrate the concepts well. Useful topics are discussed, including Active X programming, OLE, ADO, DDE, and database programming with VB. This is an all-around primer to the language that won't bore you.

If you were scared to learn Visual Basic then be not afraid. Mr. Aitken slowly takes you down the learning path, guiding you every step of the way!!