Microsoft Visual Basic .Net Programming for the Absolute Beginner [With CD]

I haven't used VB since version 4.0 years ago, A few weeks ago I bought VB .NET Step by Step the complete learning edition (comes with VB .NET standard). I picked up the step by step book and set it back down, very boring. So I bought VB .NET for the absolute beginner... This book is great within 5 or 6 chapters I was completely comfortable with VB again (I wasn't that comfortable with VB 4.0 in the first place), I'm just about finished with the book now and am ready to go back to school armed with this new knowledge for the new VB .NET course they just started offering. Any way my only regrets is that this publisher does not make a C++ .NET for absolute beginners... Anyone who may have some suggestions please e-mail me: [email protected] (please, no boring titles)... Sincerly, Jay Cosby

Here are the ADVANTAGES of this book: 1) This book is TRULY designed for programming beginners! In other words, you do not have to have prior programming experience in order to be able to learn from this book. 2) Each chapter provides clear, easy to understand, programming examples which are throughly thought out by the author. Due to this, it makes learning a lot of fun -- and quite entertaining! 3) The coding samples are clearly explained. For a fact, this is my first programming exposure to the .NET platform and I am rapidly learning to write neat software with this book. 4) Don't listen to the others who are giving this book a bad rating. The only truth to their statements is that this book does use (in some chapters) older, and well-known programming commands, which Microsoft would prefer went away. However, these statements are perfectly legitimate to use -- and are frequently used in software developed to this very day. Besides that, the rest of their complaint's are mostly unnecessary nit-picking...

It starts out with some really basic stuff, and than walks you through to the Intermediate Level. I had looked over about 30 other books before settling on this one. Those other books just don't give you enough beginning information. I think this book is probably one of the best ones out there. Learning Visual Basic.NET is not easy, but this book really helps.

Ed, What are you smoking?! My 12 year old brother uses this book!This book is PERFECT for beginners and a really great read! Harbour did a great job from beginning to end! A great little book, crammed packed with useful information!