Learn Visual Basic 2019 Edition: A Step-By-Step Programming Tutorial

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If you have some Visual Basic experience but want some hands on instructions step by step, this is the book for you. I think some experience with the foundation of VB would help but really not required. This isn't a book that will teach you all the nuts and bolts of Visual Studio. It will get you up and running using the tools of Visual Basic programming. I can see why the book isn't real cheap but definitely money well spent.

I am tasked with converting a VB6 application up to VB.Net. This book has helped tremendously with bringing me up to speed and just happens to touch on the questions and issues I have been encountering. I'm glad I chose this book.However, today I hit a snag. On page 6-64 there is a link to "Download Setup Wizard" which I can't click since I purchased the paperback copy of the book. This is a problem! Can anyone post the actual URL where this link takes you?

This book is written in such good clear detail which was what I was hoping for. Finally a great visual basic book that explains a lot of the bells and whistles that are available in visual basic. To often books are written without very clear explanations as to how things work and Phils book takes away all the guess work. GREAT BOOK !!!Les Fernandez

This Book is one of the best book I have read. The Author started by building a strong foundation. The Author explained in a very simple way the concept of Object, Properties , Methods, Class and namespace. The book is full with lots of exercises and problems combined with the solution .In my opinion for any one trying to learn visual basic should start with this book .

Un buen inicio para los que no conocemos del tema, le falta explicar algunas funciones más avanzadas o explicar más a fondo algunos ejemplos

After reading many "teach yourself books" on Visual basic this is the best I have found. The cover may not have the eye catching colours of most of the other books but it delivers on the content.

The "downloads" mentioned in the kindle version of the book were not available and an email asking why was not responded to. There was not the connection to Visual Studio 2019 as indicated in the book. Overall, it was a disappointing purchase. They do have an online course that has the same info and the same price. This would have been a better purchase for me--or anyone.

Per partire da zero senza problemi, poi se si ha una certa esperienza alcune parti si possono leggere velocemente, consigliato

Seems to be a good book well structured, but wrong language to learn for me. I'm happy I could return it ( kindle version )

This is a big book, both in size and scope. A great resource for beginner and intermediate level programmers. Chapters are well laid out and easy to follow, with very clear instructions and examples.I bought a number of these with the aim of teaching visual basic to my colleagues. They all love it too.A bit pricey, but highly recommended.

These lessons are a highly organized and well-indexed set of lessons in the Visual Basic programming environment. They are written for the initiated programmer – the college-prep or university student seeking to advance their Computer Science repertoire.While full solutions are provided, the projects are presented in an easy-to-follow set of lessons explaining the rational for the solution – the form layout, coding design and conventions, and specific code related to the problem. The learner may follow the tutorials at their own pace while focusing upon context relevant information. The finished product is the reward, but the student is fully engaged and enriched by the process. This kind of learning is often the focus of teacher training at the highest level.Every Computer Science teacher and self-taught learner knows what a great deal of work is required for projects to work in this manner, and with these tutorials, the work is done by an author who understands the adult need for streamlined learning. The author taught Visual Basic Programming at the University level for 15 years.Graduated Lessons for Every Project … Lessons, examples, problems and projects. Graduated learning. Increasing and appropriate difficulty... Great results.With these projects, there are lessons providing a comprehensive background on the programming topics to be covered. Once understood, concepts are easily applicable to a variety of applications. Then, specific examples are drawn out so that a learner can practice with the Visual Basic form designer. Conventions relating to event-driven programming, naming controls and the scope of variables are explained. Then specific coding for the example is provided so that the user can see all the parts of the project come together for the finished product.After the example is completed, then short problems challenge the user to repeat the process on their own, and finally, exercises provide a "summative" for the unit. By presenting lessons in this graduated manner, adult students are fully engaged and appropriately challenged to become independent thinkers who can come up with their own project ideas and design their own forms and do their own coding. Once the process is learned, then student engagement is unlimited! I have seen student literacy improve dramatically when students cannot get enough of what is being presented.Lessons encourage accelerated learning - in the sense that they provide an enriched environment to learn computer science, but they also encourage accelerating learning because students cannot put the lessons away once they start! Computer Science provides this unique opportunity to challenge students, and it is a great testament to the authors that they are successful in achieving such levels of engagement with consistency.How independent learners use the materials.The style of presentation (lessons, examples, problems, exercises) encourages self-guided learning. Students may trust the order of presentation in order to have sufficient background information for every project. But the lessons are also highly indexed, so that students may pick and choose projects if limited by time.Materials already condense what is available from MSDN so that students remember what they learn.My history with the Kidware Software products.I have used single license or shareware versions of the tutorials for over a decade to keep up my own learning as a Secondary School teacher of advanced Computer Science. As a learner who just wants to get down to business, these lessons match my learning style. I do not waste valuable time ensconced in language reference libraries for programming environments and help screens which can never be fully remembered! With every project, the pathway to learning is clear and immediate, though the topics in Computer Science remain current, relevant and challenging.Some of the topics covered in these tutorials include:• Data Types and Ranges• Scope of Variables• Naming Conventions• Decision Making• Looping• Language Functions – String, Date, Numerical• Arrays, Control Arrays• Writing Your own Methods and Classes• Windows Application Design and Distribution• Sequential File Access, Error-Handling and Debugging techniques• Graphics and Multimedia applications• Visual Basic Database and Web Applications• and more… it’s all integrated into the tutorials.Quick Learning curve by Contextualized LearningHaving projects completed ahead of time encourages Contextualized Learning. Once a problem statement is understood, then the process of form-design, naming controls and coding is mastered for a given set of Visual Basic controls. Then, it is much more likely that students create their own problems and solutions from scratch. This is the pattern of learning for any language!Meet Different State and Provincial Curriculum Expectations and MoreDifferent states and provinces have their own curriculum requirements for Computer Science. With the Kidware Software products, you have at your disposal a series of projects which will allow you to pick and choose from among those which best suit your learning needs. Students focus upon design stages and sound problem-solving techniques from a Computer Science perspective. In doing so, they become independent problem-solvers, who will be able to meet the challenges of post-secondary Computer Science with confidence.Computer Science topics not explicitly covered in tutorials can be added at the learner’s discretion. For example, recursive functions could be dealt with in a project which calculates factorials, permutations and combinations with a few text boxes and buttons on a form. Students learn to process information by collecting it in text boxes, and they learn to code command buttons. The language - whether it is Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, or Console Java, Java GUI, etc... is really up to the individual learner!Lessons encourage your own programming extensions.Once concepts are learned, it is difficult to NOT know what to do for your own projects. Having developed my own projects in one language, such as Visual Basic, I know that I could easily adapt them to other languages once I have studied the Kidware Software tutorials. I do not believe there is any other reference material out there which would cause me to make the same claim! In fact, I know there is not as I have spent over a decade looking! With their programming tutorials, I have learned to teach Small Basic, Visual Basic, Visual C#, and Java!Having used Kidware Software tutorials for the past decade, I have been successful at the expansion of my own learning of other platforms such as XNA for the Xbox, the Kinect and Unity game programming.I thank Kidware Software and its authors for continuing to stand for what is right in the teaching methodologies which not only inspire, but propel the self-guided learner through what can be an intelligible landscape of opportunities.Alan Payne, B.A.H. , B.Ed.Computer Science Teacher

Parfait pour ceux et celles qui désirent apprendre à utiliser Visual Basic. Très détaillé, de plus les fichiers sont disponibles au téléchargement, ce qui est un gros plus.