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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
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...
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!
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... more info
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... more info
