Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (Book and CD edition)

A beginner?s guide to Visual Basic 2005 Express with a twist?short movies on CD-ROM that show exactly how to write programs. Best-selling author Wallace Wang explains not just how to do things but also why, making this book perfect for novice programmers. Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing starts with a short primer on the general principles of computer programming, so readers will grasp the fundamentals and then apply them to Visual Basic Express. The first CD includes numerous short source code examples that readers can run and modify, along with movies demonstrating how to accomplish specific tasks; the second CD contains a full working version of Visual Basic Express.

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EXCELLENT STARTER BOOK FOR BEGINNERS
Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing (Book and CD edition)I have been learning visual basic now for 1-1/2 years spent alot of money on expensive books that are written for people who have probably 5 years experience. I highly recommend this book for beginneers the author makes it very easy to understand codeing, i learnn't more in the first 30 pages than i did with $150.00 worth of the other books.
Great Book and thanks

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Great Author, Great Guidebook to Learn New VB2005
Although this book is written for absolute beginner and some of the explanation of concepts can be skipped, I like the way Wallace Wang introduced how to use the ToolBox items with simple example without having to type a lot or spend too much time on changing the property of toolbox item. It is simple, yet powerful to get a grasp of new VB2005 and its upgraded user interface. The CD ROM may be a little too much for me, but maybe would do for an absolute beginner who had never used the VS series. If you know VB or other programming language, you can finish this book in 1-2 days and be really familiar with VB2005.
I liked the hint of jokes that he included in the example,, It would have been a lot more fun if he could write more expressively as he did in Beginning Programming For Dummies (Beginning Programming for Dummies)

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Be careful of this book,,.
It appears to be written for a non-current version of VB Express 2005. Much of the code will not work with the version that you download today from Microsoft. (It might work with the version on the CD, but who wants to be stuck with an old program?) Some of the programs from the CD will give you `build errors` if you try to run them,

This is a common problems with publishers trying to have the first available book for a program. But they usually work off of a beta, not the finished product. In this case, it's a real pain for the unwary student.

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Creating functions & modules
This book answered all my questions about how to build functions, procedures and modules.

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Very Good Book!!
Well written, understandable for all of us `non-geeks`, and even amusing. Thanks Mr Wang for a big boost!!