Books for learning

[Andy]

Hi

Just purchased "Beginning Visual Basic 2005" from amazone.com. Anyone who
has experience with this book, or could recomend another beginning
programming bok?

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[S.M. Altaf [MVP]]

In my opinion, any book is fine to begin with, like the one you have. But
once you're done with that, you should read a slightly more advanced book.
My favorite reccommendation is "Professional VB.NET" from Wrox Press.

HTH
Altaf

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Andy,

Do you want a book to learn programming or a book to learn Visual Basic 2005
programming? In other words, do you have already programming experience? I
ask this because if you have no programming experience at all, you need
first a book that explains programming concepts (variables, constants,
procedures, functions, logic control statements, etc.) before learning
"visual" programming or object oriented programming (OOP).

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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[Andy]

Hi Carlos

I want to learn programming, and programming in VB.Net. I have very little
programming experience.

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[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Then you need some book that teaches you the basics of procedural
programming (variables, constants, subrutines, functions, loops, control
flow, algorithms, etc.). Most VB.NET books will take that for granted (even
VB6 experience) so they won´t help you. Any programming language is valid
for this part, since the concepts are the same in all languages, only the
syntax varies.

When you master it you can learn some object oriented programming OOP
(classes, objects or instances, fields, properties, methods, etc.), then you
can learn "visual programming" (forms, buttons, etc.) and then you can learn
advanced object oriented programming (inheritance, interfaces, etc.).

Just my opinion...

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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[Andy]

Hi Carlos

So which books do you recomend? In addition to the one I bought? I have also
"learning VB 2003 step by step" lying around. Could that be a starting
point?

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[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

I don´t know because I learnt programming 20 years ago with other languages,
so I don´t know current books, but you can go to Amazon (www.amazon.com),
and search "Programming Absolute Beginner" books, read the topics, read the
reviews and choose the better. You can also search for tutorials on the web
using Google (www.google.com) instead of buying a book to learn the basics,
or to get an idea of what you need.
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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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You can code, design and document much faster.
Free resources for add-in developers:
http://www.mztools.com

 

[Andy]

Thanks Carlos

You've given me a good starting point.

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