| OverviewIn this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a
computer and the desire to learn how to program with Visual Basic
2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software,
this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete
programming project a desktop weather-reporting application from
start to finish. You ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual
Studio® development environment and learn how to put the
lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express Edition to
work right away creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your
first ready-to-use program. You ll get expert tips, coaching, and
visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to
additional learning resources.
Key Book Benefits
This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help
novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for
Windows® quickly and easily
Provides a quick-start, project-based approach!
Provides complete software for Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition
and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools
to work right away
Features a complete desktop application that can be easily
modified and reused a great learn-by-doing example Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionIn this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project a desktop weather-reporting application from start to finish. You ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio® development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express Edition to work right away creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources. Key Book Benefits
This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for Windows® quickly and easily
Provides a quick-start, project-based approach!
Provides complete software for Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away
Features a complete desktop application that can be easily modified and reused a great learn-by-doing example |
Other Readers Also Read | Top Sellers in This Category | Browse Similar Topics | | | Top Level Categories:Sub-Categories: | | | | |
Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 9 reviews. Author forgot his audience, 2009-05-19 Reviewer rating: I purchased this book in hopes of making a quick start into Visual Basic Express Edition. Although not inexperienced in programming, it had been a while, and needed to familiarize myself with the new techniques and such. This book was very little help in accomplishing that goal. The book was written in a very dry manner, with the author assuming that the reader had considerably more knowledge on Visual Basic than the supposed target market. In numerous situations, the author just tells you "type this, and look what happens!!", with no explanation of what the syntax or programming code means. The book touches on many subjects, but doesn't follow through with them. I was very diappointed with this book, and could not recommend this book for someone to begin using Visual Basic. | VB Express Startup, 2009-01-08 Reviewer rating: Getting this product is worth it just to avoid the hassle of downloading all the various separate files you need to run the various express editions included on the CD. Not a bad start-up guide either but don't expect more. | Most Unobjective Presentation Method, 2008-12-24 Reviewer rating: When you read this book ("Microsoft Visual Basic 2008", by Patrice Pelland), you feel that you must try your best to be very patient, for the subject matter is prsented in a too much worded way. This is so because the subject matter is not explained in an objective way, for there are too many words that say just a little bit. Instead of phrasing the subject matter with the right amount of words, the auhor prefers to use as many words as possible, no matter what is needed.
This kind of paraphrasing, or overwording, tends to make you impatient, and you start abhor what you are most interesting in, that is to say, you begin to avert what you want most.
In this way your main objective turns unobjective, and because of this I do not recommend the reading of this book, if you really want to learn how to prgram in Visual Basic | You can download the software for free at MS site !, 2008-11-20 Reviewer rating: Considering the previous comments that this was written based on beta code and the fact not mentioned that you can download the VB studio software for free from microsoft why bother buying the book. You can also download SQL server, C++, .... for free. Save your money and spend it on a better book without the software. So if your buying this because of the software you should re-evaluate your rational. Software available for free so your really buying just the book. | Build some things but not all, 2008-11-10 Reviewer rating: This book was written based on Beta code.
I found that some things worked and some didn't, with absolutely NO troubleshooting guide to help explain why some of the code in the book gives errors - even when using the software supplied on the CD.
Some examples worked OK - some created seemingly unfixable errors. This is extremely frustrating since, if you are like me, you will assume that you have done something wrong when really it is a Microsoft problem!
|
Some information above was provided using data from Amazon.com. View at Amazon > |
| |
© 2009 Safari Books Online. All rights reserved.
|
