Disappointed
2/1/2007
After all the hype about Deitel books I was really looking forwards to reading this book. If you are learning VB at home on your own then this book is a waste of time. This is a college exercise book. There are a lot of examples to practice on at the end of each chapter but there are no answers. The authors assume you have a tutor to fall back on. In fact, you have to be a tutor to get the answers. This makes about a third of the book useless for people who are learning at home on their own. The authors have perfected the art of making rather simple programming concept into very long winded confusing concepts. I've read other VB books that explain the same concepts in a few paragraphs, not several pages like this book does. For a book of this size there are not really many computer concepts explained.
The only thing I liked about this book was that it had colour screen shots. There are several other good VB books out there for beginners that cost a third of this, are half the size and will teach you many more programming concepts than this book.
Unless you are on a college course that makes you buy this book save your money as there are much better books out there for learning VB.