Burrows ] Learning Programming Using Visual Basic.Net W/CD-ROM Mandatory Pkg ] 2003 ] 1

By William E. Burrows and Joseph D. Langford

This volume teaches students programming while using VB to illustrate the concepts and techniques. Beginning with fundamental programming concepts and gradually moving toward complex methods, the text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072834129
• ISBN13: 9780072834123
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I recommended that it be used for a VB.NET course

For years, I have taught a course in Visual Basic version 6 in the community education department of the local community college. With the movement to VB.NET, it is time to make the change. After examining this book, I have recommended that we use it for the updated course. The first seven chapters contain all of the standard examples of using the GUI objects and the constructs such as if - then -else and loops. It introduces the object-oriented features as early as possible. For example, try-catch blocks for exceptions are incorporated into the examples as early as page 88. There is no chapter devoted to object-oriented concepts in VB.NET; they are scattered throughout, introduced when appropriate. Chapter eight covers processing databases and an introduction to ADO.NET and chapter nine is an introduction to XML and how it is used in VB. In chapter eleven, the collection objects such as hashtables and sortedlists are examined. Chapter twelve demonstrates how to use VB.NET to create web applications. At the end of each chapter, a large project is completely presented with a list of each of the GUI objects and the assignments to the properties as well as complete listings of the code for each module. Exercises are interspersed inside the chapters and solutions to some of them are included at the end. Sets of multiple-choice and programming problems are also at the end of each chapter. VB.NET is quite different from VB 6, but is not all that hard to learn. However, if you are experienced in VB 6 and trying to learn VB.NET, then the worst approach is to suddenly be bombarded by a list of all the differences. The best way to learn VB.NET is to have the differences incorporated into your learning one idea at a time. It is that approach that sold me on this book.