Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up | Gary Cornell

Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up | Gary Cornell | Outstanding foundation

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	Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up Gary Cornell McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 1998 - 932 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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Visual Basic from Ground up

It's the best book on the market for beginners. I wish the author had written one for intermediate and advanced VB programmers. Thank you, Mr.Cornell

Outstanding foundation

If you don't know how to start a car, don't buy a book on how to build a race car. In other words to understand ANY language, you need to understand what it is you're going to be asking the operating system to do.

This book provides an excellent foundation for beginning VB programmers. If you're new and looking for a jumping-off point, this book is for you. As an application developer I was asked to take a look at this book for a colleague. I was impressed with the throroughness and ease of comprehension of this content.

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Good Overview/2nd Book on VB

I agree with the reader that states this is a good 2nd book on VB. I found it helpful for picking up on the author's ideas on good programming style and for learning some things I had missed when I began using VB. There are some typos and small errors in code, but otherwise this a good book. I think that for the beginner it may be a little too vague.

Good SECOND book on VB

If you are a VB beginner, start with Halvorson's VB6 Step by Step, then get this one. This book is quite wordy, but is does give excellent advice to take you to an intermediate level. Cornell is obviously experienced, and he gives some good advice for 'good programming practice' and 'efficiency'. These skills are needed for professional programming, but get in the way if you are a beginner.

If you want to go into DB programming, this is the wrong book for you. I understand John Connell's 'Beginning VB6 DB Programming' book is good, I just ordered it.

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Not a beginner's book

A word of caution...this is not a beginner's book. The title is misleading in that it sounds as though one can simply pick up this book and "presto" learn VB6. I found this an excellent SECOND VB6 book. I am not a programmer by trade but nonetheless hold several advanced degrees...i.e., I not THAT stupid!. I found the first 200 pages to be easy to follow and very helpful. After this, however, I quickly was lost. Cornell doesn't supply enough examples of when you might use a programming technique. At times the book simply supplies a laundry list of items..i.e., "intrinsic functions", etc. Many other topics are covered in rather vague terms (at least for the beginner). The chapter on databases discusses only DAO, a soon-to-be obsolete technology, instead of ADO. On the positive side, once I learned a bit more VB6 (I read Peter Wright's "Beginning Visual Basic 6.0"), Cornell's book actually became helpful. If one has a reasonable grasp of VB, then the author provides some valuable programming tips, etc. Thus, if already have some experience with VB or another programming language, this is a reasonable book. If you are truly a NOVICE, however, I'd recommend you spend your money elsewhere.

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