Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

• R. Brian Lindahl

  Thank You very much for your response. I have quite a few friends who are programmers. I'm a long time IT guy and I can understand code and work on a software development team. I collect requirements and write RUP documents. I've just finally decided to take the plunge to code.
  
  I want to write a sports managmenet game for fun.
  
  

• Nishad.A.R

  ReneeC and Billy,

  Thank you for your help! I generally do not like the dummies books. They are a bit to wordy for me and do not contain enough meat. While, I'm new to programming I understand the logic and concepts behind it. I was debating between a book from O'Riely's by Jessie that seemed to get great reviews. But, I figured I did not have enough experience with VB to make that purchase. I will pick up the MS Press book step by step. That should get me rolling.

  
  Thanks again gentlemen. I will definately check out that movie above.

  
  
  

• Pencilcheck

  http://www.quantumbooks.com/p/03PROGB/0764597051

  http://www.powells.com/biblio isbn=0764599275#top

  
  

• blounsbury

  Hey Blair and Ron Nash.... I Had to Lie A Little in the Last Post to Get to Press.... VBESux..... I Love C# Express .......Cheers

  
  

• Eric Harmon

  For What its Worth..... I personally Do not Believe One should Try to write an Application until one learns the Fundamentals of the Language...... What happens when you try to write an Application without Basic knowledge is that you will hit the Wall Hard real early and you may sit for days trying to solve a trivial Problem...... Read the Posts...... Having said that may I suggest you write a Language Reference Card which will consist of 30 or so small programs which depict the basic element of the Language.... Transfer these 30 or so programs to a word Processor then print out the Reference Cards and laminate them.... Now you have a visual Aid and bag Full of tools to actually write an Application..... Cheers

  
  

• stronghold

  ReneeC wrote:

  jkolodziejski, I am offering a personal opinion and my own impressions. The poster know as Bronco Billy, reports that he's never mastered visual basic. He has been interested in C# for approximately one week. Were I seeling information, I'd prefer input from members of the community having demonstrated technical depth. I've had 35 years of experience in software. I think VB is a really terrific language to use and to learn with. There are wonderful resources here in terms of knowledge. May your your tenure be both enjoyable as well as educational.

  Could you recommend a book to start with Is the step-by-step book by Microsoft for VB 2005 a good starter book

  
  
  

• Vita

  Hi,

  I have been learning VB 2005 since November and have found the following study books very useful. I agree with Bronco Billy it's best to have a good understanding of the language before diving in at the deep end. I have been studying VB virtualy every day since November and am now beginning to understand the concepts of OO .net etc.

  Although I still have a lot to learn, and will always be learning, I beleive the time spent learning and understanding the language before diving in at the deep end will be time well spent.

  Here are some of the learning material I am using:

  MS Press Free book

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/introto2005/

  Build a program now

  https://connect.microsoft.com/downloads/downloads.aspx SiteID=40

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Wrox) http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764595733.html

  Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express Database Applications with VB express and VB web Dev Express (Apress) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590595238/026-2998034-6733250

  I aslo have the VB for 2005 Express for Dummies, and to be honest you need to be a dummie to buy it. If you want to learn OO not the book for you.

  Hope this helps

  Happy Learning

  Ron

   

  
  

• fparc

   

  1.) I'm am a woman.

  Billy, I can tell you about the first time I ever wrote a program without having read a word about coding.

  I was working on my Ph.D. and wrote a statistics program. I compared my answers to a physics journal article and I didn't come up with the same answers as was in the Journal. Yet, when I put known values in the program, the answers were correct.

  I wrote a letter to the author and the author wrote back and said, he had not written the software that HP did. He inquired with HP and they found an error and the journal article was retracted.

  That's what can happen when you sit down and write your first program and why I highly recommend it.

  
  
  

• paulains

  Hi Ron Noal.... OOP was also the Show Stopper for Me in the Beginning and is Still My Biggest Challenge..... Blair Whose Personality is the Antithesis of Mine.... He’s Blunt Crude and Direct... Where I am more Gentle Polite and Tend to go along with the Herd ...... He said to Me in a Post... The reason you don’t understand OOP is VBE.... He was Right..... The Languages are results Equal.... And One is as Good as the Other...... But on Feb 14/06 I down loaded C#.... And I was Off and Running..... OOP became a lot clearer to me in Both Languages....... Also the Documentation in both Languages is excellent But a Little Sparse in VBE Follow the Links for Learn VBE/Visual C# On the Starter Page in Both Languages for Proof..... The Moral Here is Everything Becomes Clearer when One Looks at Both Languages..... Cheers

  
  

• BayerWhite

  jkolodziejski,

  I am offering a personal opinion and my own impressions.

  The poster know as Bronco Billy, reports that he's never mastered visual basic. He has been interested in C# for approximately one week. Were I seeling information, I'd prefer input from members of the community having demonstrated technical depth.

  I've had 35 years of experience in software. I think VB is a really terrific language to use and to learn with. There are wonderful resources here in terms of knowledge. May your your tenure be both enjoyable as well as educational.

  
  
  

• shware

  jkolodziejski,

  Yes, I've found that to be good.

  Since I have had 35 years of experience - there were no computer science couses when I  was learning....so, I recommend actually sitting down and writing something like a calculator or a tic-tac-toe game.

  Reading and participating where will also helpful. Also, Billy has just made a couple of good suggestions.

   

  
  
  

• Mini

  Blush sorry about that RenneC.
  
  

• Ravi Teja

  ReneeC Said "Billy, I can tell you about the first time I ever wrote a program without having read a word about coding.

  I was working on my Ph.D. and wrote a statistics program. I compared my answers to a physics journal article and I didn't come up with the same answers as was in the Journal. Yet, when I put known values in the program, the answers were correct.

  I wrote a letter to the author and the author wrote back and said, he had not written the software that HP did. He inquired with HP and they found an error and the journal article was retracted.

  That's what can happen when you sit down and write your first program and why I highly recommend it".

  What's Your Ph.D In

  
  

• jabdip

  Myself I can not image anyone Learning this trade without First taking a few Formal Courses in this Area.... But if You are Really Smart(Cgraus) you can Do It..... These are Free Movies Not Books...

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualCSharp/learning/

  Down load all the Movies from each Link and watch all several times... After the Experience You Will be were You want to Go..... The Second Link Will Serve you to Understand the first Link....... Cheers

  PS.... Actually I Truely Believe You Would Be MUCH MUCH Better Off starting with C#,,,,, After you watch Both Sets of Videos you will Truely understand This,,,,,,,

  
  
• Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?