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Visual Basic 6 How to Program
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by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, and Tem R. Nieto
Sales Rank: 376652
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$0.77
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Paperback: 1015 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Pap/Cdr edition December 4, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0134569555
ISBN-13: 978-0134569550
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Book Info
Helps you build real-world VB6 applications. Includes hundreds of live code programs with screen captures that show exact outputs, extensive exercises accompanying every chapter, & hundreds of tips, recommendations, & cautions. Paper. CD-ROM included. DLC: Microsoft Visual Basic.
Back Cover Copy
45695-4
The Complete, authoritative introduction to Visual Basic 6
Visual Basic 6 is revolutionizing software development with multimedia-intensive, object-oriented, compiled code for conventional and Internet/Intranet-based applications, This new volumes in the Deitels' How to Program Series -- the world's most widely used introductory/intermediate, college-level programming language textbook series -- explains Visual Basic 6's extraordinary capabilities.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized training organizations specializing in Java, C, C++, Visual Basic and object technologies. They are also the authors of the world's #1 introductory C, C++ and Java textbooks -- C How to Program, C++ How to Program, and Java How to Program. The Deitels and their colleague, Tem R. Nieto, introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Visual Basic 6. Key topics include: - Internet/Intranet, World-Wide Web, VBScript
- Active X, ADO
- Multimedia: Images, animation, audio, video
- Files, databases, networking
- Graphics, string, data structures, collections
- GUI, control creation
Visual Basic 6 How to Program helps you build real-world VB6 applications. It includes: - Hundreds of "live-code" programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
- Extensive exercises (many with answers) accompanying every chapter
- Hundreds of tips, recommended practices, and cautions -- all marked with icons
Visual Basic How to Program is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning VB6, including a Web site (http://www.prenhall.com.deitel) with the book's source-code examples and other information for faculty, students and professional programmers; and optional interactive CD-ROM (Visual Basic 6 Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing extensive interactivity features -- such as thousands of hyperlinks, audio walkthorughs of the code examples and solutions to about half the exercises in Visual Basic 6 How to Program -- and e-mail access to the authors at deitel@deitel.com
For information on corporate on-site seminars and public seminars offered by Deitel & Associates, Inc., worldwide, visit http://www.deitel.com
For information on the latest Visual Basic software, documentation and demos http://www.microsoft.com/vbasic or http://www.developer.com
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book was on the required list for a class on programming I recently completed (apparently some schools are avoiding using VB.NET in intro classes due to its added complexity). I had always wanted to check out a Deitel book, but the bone-crushing price drove me away more than once. Luckily I was forced into buying it for my class. This is a solid book that will teach you everything you need to know to get started writing simple to somewhat complex VB6 code. The book begins with a history of Visual Basic and how it fits into programming in general. Then you're off and diving right into the VB Development Environment and by chapter 3 you've written a simple program. The book gains in complexity from that point on, but at a slow enough pace to take it all in. In fact, sometimes the pace seems stifling. If you're an impatient person I would avoid this book. It's over 900 very thick pages long and sometimes getting through a single chapter feels like an entire book in itself (chapter 8 "Strings, Dates, and Times" felt this way for me). If you're patient and you learn like a sponge, then be prepared to learn bunches and bunches from this book. By the time you're through you'll even have learned about advanced data structures like linked lists and trees. Getting through this book, despite its academic bulk, feels like a real accomplishment. The exercises at the end of each chapter are invaluable for solidifying concepts and for getting your hands wet and sloppy with code. Definitely don't skip these, you'll learn more from working through them then you will reading the text. It should be noted that the book is not designed for individual study - it is meant to be a textbook for a classroom setting (they say as much in the preface). I think it's most appropriate in that setting (it also has a textbook price). Regardless of it's girth, this book will teach you enough VB6 to program applications of decent complexity. What you won't get is a lesson on API calls or Direct X, but the book is thick enough already!
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