BKCIGVIB.RVW   950719
 
%A   Greg Perry
%C   201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN   46290
%D   1994
%G   1-56761-486-8
%I   Alpha Books
%O   U$19.95/C$26.95 800-858-7674 75141.2102@compuserve.com
%P   372
%S   Complete Idiot's Guide ...
%T   "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic"
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic", Greg Perry, 1994, 1-56761-486-8,
U$19.95/C$26.95
 
A button on a Windows screen that does nothing is not too impressive.  However,
it takes about a hundred lines of C code to generate it, and many times that
number of machine instructions.  Still, BASIC is supposed to be an easy
language, and Visual Basic even easier.  So, why does it take until chapter
seven before we get to create said futile button?  Chapter eleven before we can
accept input?  Chapter eighteen (over halfway through the book) before we get
anything like a usable program, primitive though it may be?
 
This book can teach you to use Visual Basic in a lock-step, paint-by-numbers
style.  If you are adventurous, intelligent, and perseverent then (maybe) you
can turn this entre into programming concepts and skills.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKCIGVIB.RVW   950719

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