Simply Visual Basic 2005

By Paul J. Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel

Combining the Deitel™ signatureLive-Code™ Approachwith a newApplication-Driven™methodology, this book uses a step-by-step tutorial approach to explore the basics of programming, builds upon previously... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132438623
• ISBN13: 9780132438629
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 797 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good...but weak by itlsef. Another complementary book is recomended

I sued this book with "Visual Basic 2005 How to Program (3rd Edition)", so it was complementing. This book (as other "Simply" books) is more oriented on GUI. It has tutorials one follows step-by-step. When used in conjunction with VBHtP (mentioned above), it is mote fun than using boring black and white MS-DOS window. So this is positive side of this book. The negative side, is (1) if you use it with VBHtP, information in two books (obviously) overlaps, and you find yourself reading same thing twice. But if you use it by itself, there is a prospect that you will need to consult some other source on VB to help you with some exercises. (2) There are typos, and if it is yur first ever programming class, you could get mad over little thing, thinking you doing everything right and it still won't work. I went through about 2/3 of the book and I remember about 3 typos/errors in the code. Now, those are resolvable if you compare code provided in the middle of the tutorial with the entire code given at the end. So, if you stuck, check both places where code found: particular section of the tutorial and the final code at the end of the tutorial. One of them is correct. As far as the quantity of data is concerned I think VBHtP has more information, but Simply VB presents it more interesting with more GIU components, and tutorial driven approach.