Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart: Pocket Guide review

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Review Date: 22 Feb 2006

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Our Rating 2 stars out of 5

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Jumpstart is a nice image: you can imagine author Wei-Meng Lee getting out his jump leads for instant action. But in practice the start is not quite as smooth as you might wish.

The book is a bit of a mess, introducing ideas in a fairly random order. If you are struggling with some of the difficult ideas involved in switching from VB6, which is a partially object-oriented language, to VB 2005, which is almost 100 per cent object-oriented, this book might be the last straw. It covers far too much ground in its 200 pages and throws in 'helpful' hints and tips that often have nothing to do with the main problems of using VB 2005. The examples are too long and too ambitious, and they don't really help you sort out the problems or understand the ideas. In many ways, the code is more about impressing the reader with what VB 2005 can do than aiding understanding.

This is more like a book of magic tricks than an aid to understanding VB 2005. You might like it if you have a short attention span, but it's unlikely to teach you much about writing VB 2005 programs.

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