Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up
by Gary Cornell

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Book Review: Bored after page 400 and lost....newbie VB user
Summary: 3 Stars

If you want a book cramming boring code that is difficult to digest and get a feel for what is going on, this is the one for you. It starts out great holding your hand, but by page 200, I was confused with all of the different code variables and their uses with no real examples on how to put it all together.

I am on page 475 right now, and am hoping the author salvages the rest of this novel and makes me more interested and knowledgeable to help me develop an application that I can actually sell. That is what the title says, "Open this book as a Novice and finish it as a Pro." Let's hope this is the case, or Amazon will be giving me a refund.

I programmed Cobol 10-15 years ago and basic. My father has been a programmer for 30 years. So, I am not an idiot. Maybe a bit unrealistic on the time it will take to learn this stuff, but this book hasn't help me do anything yet but design the layout of my application, and I still have problems with that for different screen resolutions.

I hope other's don't have the same experience or expectations that I had. New to programming, forget this book and find one that will give you something useful, unfortunately, there probabably isn't one out there. As usual with all Microsoft products, it will probably take me 6 months to begin to figure out what the heck I am doing and watch 10s of thousands of dollars in potential profit go down the tubes while I figure out how to use VB 6 :(

Finally, you can download the code in the author's examples from the press web site. I was disappointed to find many of the examples asking for path e:\xxxx\xxx looking for a CDrom or something to load the code, ultimately not working to bring up the example. Shows me a lack of detail which I personally never overlook in my own work. These little simple mistakes that start to pile up on one another, definitely upsetting the reader and frustrating them. Like one code example to center text in a form top/bottom/side/side, well after typing the code in exactly as shown, the thing would be at the top of the page centered, not centered top/bottom. These mistakes seem far and few between luckily. But, you sit staring at the code and screen wondering if you are an imcompetent fool and can't type simple letters on the screen because of this, definitely deflating your confidence for learning this stuff in any reasonable amount of time.

I hope someone else finds this book more useful than me. But, you are sadly mistaken if you think you will pick this book up and know how to write a program that you could sell by the end.

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