Reviews for Beginning VB.NET (Programmer to Programmer)

1. Awful

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2008

   It's hard to believe that this book comes from the publishing group as Beginning C# (Beginning Visual C# 2005), Beginning ASP.Net(Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 (Programmer to Programmer)), and Beginning SQL Server 2005 (Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer)), because, unlike those books, it is appallingly bad.
   
   This book is supposed to give new programmers an insight into object orientated programming using VB.Net 2005 as the language of choice.
   
   If you go through it cover to cover, you will become very adept at following and copying programming examples based on someone else's work, and feel very good about yourself, until you try and knock out something yourself, at which point it will quickly become apparent that your knowledge of the concepts of OOP, and the fundamental operation of the .Net framework are nearly non-existent.
   
   The book scratches the surface of what is a very powerful programming language, and essentially allows you to knock out a couple of flat form-based applications. It is fairly obvious that this book is designed to entice you to buy the subsequent books in the series by hinting at more "advanced" topics, while never really explaining them.
   
   If you are an experienced Visual Basic programmer, then give this a miss. If you are a beginner to programming, and actually want to learn something about the .Net framework, either go with a different VB book, or buy the Wrox Beginning C# 2005 book.

2. Excellent book to learn VB

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2006

   This is a great book for learning VB2005. It goes through many lessons including writing a game for a handheld. I would recommend this to anyone learning VB2005 for the first time.

3. Well structured book for beginners

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, December 12st, 2004

   I'm an experienced VB6 developer, so I skipped large sections of this book. It goes into examples of arrays, variables, conditions - the type of things I don't need to know about. Beginners certainly will find the book well structured with basic examples and clear explanations.
   More experienced developers will skip large sections of it and use the examples to highlight differences between VB6 and VB.NET, but it possibly not the best tome for that.
   There are a couple of small errors with some of the examples, but the publisher's website provides corrections.

4. Does what it says on the tin

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2004

   This is a great book for beginner programmers and intermediate programmers alike. I came from a VB6 world and have used this book it has taught me a lot. I would highly recommend it to anyone wishing to learn VB.NET..