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Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart Review by Smilin Jim
Like going to a MS VB demonstration
This book is like sitting in one of those two-day seminars where they have a couple of examples that show things that they want to get across and as long as you are willing to stay on the guided tour, they work well. There are some nice nuggets in this book. My favorite is that Wei-Meng chose to go into the Amazon Web Services in one example. Learning about this was worth the price of admission.
On the other hand, I got so sick of hearing about how VB was doing all the "heavy lifting" and such. These are terms that I would expect to hear from some rah rah salesperson, not a serious author trying to teach something. I know MS is the king and there are no serious other options in Basic with Windows, so why drive the point home with a pick axe?
I also wonder about a book that is supposed to be for experienced programmers, but tells you what an integer variable is.
I'm glad the book was cheap. I did get an adequate sense of direction from the book. I would wait to buy reference books since VB 2008 is coming out now. the VB2005 books will get cheap and I will get 2008.