Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005, An (6th Edition)

Based on the newest version of Microsoft's VB. NET, this revision of Schneider's best-selling guide is designed for readers with no prior computer programming experience. The author uses Visual Basic .NET 2005 to explore the fundamentals of programming, building a strong foundation that will give students a sustainable understanding of programming. Offers a broad range of examples, case studies, exercises, and programming projects to give readers significant hands-on experience. Includes a new section on Graphics. Provides fully updated example text and data, including tax codes, social security forms/data, baseball statistics, and more. Contains all new, robust, interesting programming projects. Updates screenshots throughout using Windows XP. Bundles Visual Basic .NET Express automatically with each copy of the text. A useful reference for both beginning and experienced programmers who want to learn more about the latest version of Microsoft's VB. NET.

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Missing Manual for VB.NET !
You can buy this book learn a lot of useful VB.NET stuff especially if you are a newbie.
Or like me you can buy all the other newbie books on VB.NET and when you get stuck with concepts like events, and advanced stuff in OOP, buy this book and learn it thoroughly. Quite contrary to some of the poor reviews you wont need a second instructor to learn VB.NET from this book. After reading this book, I was looking on amazon for other computer books by the same author. I found this book so much useful,,.

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visual basics
the book was brand new and i got it at almort 1/3 the price at the bookstore at school! It was a great investment!

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this book is the worse book i ever read.
same as the person said `this book is a garbage` he is right, this book is really a garbage.
it's explanation is so terrible you can not believe.
it says thing that it doesn't even mention on the previous pages.
for example text alignment.
one practice this book as you do do some text alignment, i was going crazy about that. i say `WHAT`
i try to search thought the entire chapter about text alignments, there is nothing there.
i just gave up on it.
THERE ARE MANY MANY PARTS THAT AUTHOR DIDN'T REALLY EXPLAIN IT WELL.
practice is awful, there is no help at all, he tell you to do something that he didn't even mentioned in the book.
so i STRONGLY BE CONSIDER DON'T BUY THIS BOOK, UNLESS YOU HAVE A GOOD TEACHER TO TEACH YOU HOW TO PROGRAM IN VISUAL BASIC. MY TEACHER HE DIDN'T TEACH MUCH EITHER, HE ONLY SHOW YOU THE TEXT, WITHOUT EXPLAIN HOW U DO IT. `I WLL DROP THIS COURSE AND TRY TO TAKE ON ANOTHER TIME`

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The Best of the Bunch - by far!
I really must take issue with the contributor who described this book as garbage.
Having decided to learn programming on my own,I tried several `beginners` books without much success. I could complete most of the projects offered by these books which were, by and large, well intended and well-written. And yet,,. somehow I never really got to grips with the language. That is - until I bought David Schneider's book. Sure its old fashioned but, in my opinion, thats one of its major strengths. It lays down a solid programming foundation following a logical well-established pattern. The best way to learn programing is by doing and there is an abundance of graded exercises to complete to ensure the message really sticks.
I can't understand why Dietel'a book on this subject is so popular. Yes it's good - but not as good as this one!
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GARBAGE!!!
This book is, almost, total garbage. Only reason why I bought the book is becuase my course requires it. In the book, author talks about one thing, then all of a sudden you are faced with a new concept, and 2 lines later, another concept. I was very dissapointed becuase the key terms sometimes,or never, are not clearly explained and leaves you in frustration and deep anger.