Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: Sams (April 21, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672324857
ISBN-13: 978-0672324857
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.5 inches
Visual Basic is the most popular programming language in existence. At the present time, it is estimated that there are over three million programmers using Visual Basic. It is also the most popular introductory programming language at most colleges and universities. This is going to become even more widespread with Visual Basic .NET. From the outset, this book is designed to teach an individual with no prior programming experience the art of object-oriented programming. The reader is carefully led through a thoughtful sequence of chapters that builds a solid foundation of programming knowledge and skills. Whether the reader is seeking general programming knowledge or specific skills in Web or database programming, this book provides the knowledge to gain those expertise.
User Review:
I would recommend this book to EVERYONE!! I already had a book on VB.NET, and regret that this book wasn't published earlier! The other book that I had on VB.NET had chapters that were as long as 50-70 pages, and very tedious to read. In this book, the author seems to be kind to the reader!! Each chapter is short enough to be interesting, and full of useful information and easily readable - the author has done a great job at explaining the topics with an interesting and engaging tone to the explanations. Each topic is broken down into manageable sizes, so that too much information is not packed into a single chapter making it overwhelming and tedious to read. For example, the concepts of encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism are usually squished into one endless chapter in other books, but this one has three separate chapters on each topic, with detailed information and interesting examples.
One of the strong points I found about this book is that it is full of useful illustrations which keep our interest in the topic. There were some diagrams which helped me understand extremely complex and difficult concepts in a matter of minutes - just by the way they were perfectly illustrated. For example, the concept of accessing a database using ADO.NET seemed very overwhelming to me after reading it in my previous book. But this book has a great illustration - a simple-to-understand flow diagram, which explains how the connection object, the data adapter object and the dataset object are interconnected and function to access the database - the whole concept seemed to dawn on me in a moment!
I think I also benefited a lot after going through the Review Questions at the end of each chapter. These questions encompass all the concepts covered in the chapter, and provide us with close to "real-life" examples, which are much better than the dull case-studies, which present a single-sided perspective.
Additionally, the language used by the author is not dull and boring - you feel like the author is having a conversation with you, which helps you sustain your interest in reading the book!
Another aspect of this book that I admired was the fact that the author has not written this book as a technical manual of VB.NET, but has also included ways in which a person can start thinking as a programmer! For example, the five programming steps that the author recommends can be utilized in any programming environment. In short, while reading this book, you don't feel like you are listening to a dull technical explanation, but to a person who is interested in conveying to you the invaluable knowledge of programming as well as the skills of VB.NET. I am very glad that I bought this book, and would recommend it to everyone - I am sure that even people who have no interest in programming will develop an interest for it - and people who already love programming will be glad that they are in the right field!
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