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Store See larger picture Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself) by James Foxall - Sams List Price: $34.99 Price at Amazon.com: $24.25 (Save 31%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: Based on 8 reviews. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 72706 Product Description Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit provides you with 24 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world programming tasks for developing Windows applications. Each chapter includes practice exercises, tips, notes, and cautions, providing easy-to-understand advice on how to start programming quickly. Sidebars provide more advanced tips that will ease your migration from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET, or help you as you continue to work with Visual Basic 2005 programming.   The accompanying CD includes Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, which will provide you with a visual integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. The Express Edition makes Windows programming with Visual Basic fun and easy-to-learn. Together with Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit, it's the perfect way for experienced Visual Basic 6.0 developers to try out new features. Featured Customer Reviews VERY pleased and VERY impressed!!!, April 17, 2008 I don't understand all the "negative reviews" I've seen so far...I am VERY PLEASED with the book and the method of learning. So far, I have not run across anything in the book that didn't work, or better still, make sense!! I have spent a lot of money on the "RED" books, and also the "BLACK books with 'tools' on the front"...to no avail. All of those books speak as if I already knew what an "object" and a "property" and a "class" was... This book put everything into perspective for me...The answers I needed were found in it. Whereas in all the other books it seems the authors only want to show how big their vocabulary is, this one brings it down to an open level that needs no "initiation in the modern programmer's vernacular"...at some points this author comes close to "crossing that line", but for the most part, he does quite well. I recommend this book to any beginner, and also to those like me with a background in "structured" programming (as opposed to OOP) who wants to LEARN Object Oriented Programming. I will soon be purchasing a book on OOP as recommended by the author of this text, to enhance my OOP skills. Again, I am QUITE pleased with this text, and will possibly build a library of similar titles, since Visual Studio 2005 supports 3 other "platforms"...I want to MAXIMIZE the product, and this book, while using Visual Basic Epress, has opened the door to permit me to do that...I use Visual Basic 2005 Express on my Laptop, and Visual Studio 2005 on my Desktop. In time, I hope to be fluent in all the languages (platforms? Terminology is EVERYTHING!!) Visual Studio supports. I hope all those negative writers have come to terms with whatever prevented them from enjoying and growing thru this book!... JecroyezJohn316 Escondido, CA. Sam's is the greatest!, October 12, 2007 Sam's "Teach yourself" books are always great! This book shows what it takes to get started and progress in the world of Visual Basic .Net 2005. Always recommended! not good - frustrating, September 01, 2007 I agree with GenomeSpinner, that this book could have been alot better. I ended up not even finishing the book because I was getting frustrated at not being able to do any exercise after the first couple chapters(which I was able to do with time and perseverance). But even when I stopped being able to complete the exercises I read on hoping that it would click and I'd be able to go back and finish the earlier exercises but I was wrong, I read up to chapter 18 and then I just gave up because not being able to complete the exercises made me think that I wasn't smart enough to do it which I know is not true because visual basic is one of the easiest programming languages to learn. I have not attempted to learn visual basic after that but now I am learning C from a great book called: C Primer Plus that I recommend you must buy if you want to learn C. In short I have to say that I wouldn't recommend Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2005 in 24 Hours to anyone unless maybe they actually had a download online for the answers to the exercises in the book like C Primer Plus does. I used to be a beginner!, August 17, 2007 Let me start off by saying I'm not a total idiot when it comes to computers, but I've never done any programming before. I use a program called ArcGIS at work, which uses VBA to customize the software. I decided to investigate programming a bit further and purchased this book. WOW! What a great way to learn. The step by step instructions are fantastic. Mr. Foxall challenges the reader to do some activities at the end of each chapter, requiring you to use what you learned. Yes, some of the information was hard to understand, but isn't that how we learn? I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning Visual Basic 2005. Terrible, April 25, 2007 To begin by being fair this author is somewhat humorous at times and takes a somewhat "surfer dude" approach to the art of programming. However... In all honesty I would not recommend this book to you unless you want something to throw out of pure frustration. I say this because the author takes a slack tone and gives vague examples in his chapters and then has examples at the end of each chapter as with most "Sam's" books. His however ask you to complete tasks that you have not learned about in the chapters. It's a feeling like being asked to do brain surgery at your first day of college. You can stumble through the first few examples with perserverance, but the later on you get the more frustrating the examples. As well there are no solutions provided for the examples leaving you dangling and forced to move on even if you were unable to complete the task. This makes learning irritating and counter-productive. Overall - Go elsewhere to gain your knowledge. 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