"Long-winded and slow, but well paced introduction to the world of Visual Basic." This book has all the earmarks of a series designed in-house. And no people actually have read computer books, let alone trying to learn from one programming language. The features in-house style that a lot: ubiquitous Do and No sidebars; Note and Tip boxes, the New Term paragraph; Summaries, Q &As; Workshop; and end-of-chapter quizzes and exercises. Well, you will not find here, not in your allotted three weeks. On the plus side, this book does have you create your first program on page 24 (one day), which is quite fast. It's not really a program, though - it is a "project," or something that Visual Basic can whip together for anyone who's been using one of the witches of Windows. But I'll give Greg Perry happy face for letting the reader actually do something early in games. As with any book on Visual Basic, the decision is whether to document the programming language or application environment first. Like others, Perry documents the environment for the first week or more. (At the time I began to wonder whether any book will not bother to document the programming language itself.) And I admire the logical flow, the days and weeks to build each other well. Program at least part of the craziness you would find in Wally Wang's Dummies book.