gemini_shooter said
I picked up this book after reading the one of the great books published by Wrox (Beginning Visual C++) and so forgive me if I bend towards comparison .... Well the title says it all ... this book is meant for a complete novice to computers ..... I wouldn't recommend it to a someone who already has some experience in programming .... beginners knock urselves out ... plenty to learn for u guys.... nothing more to stay ... Titles can be so misleading ... Beginning Visual C++ was so great and I learned so much from it so thats why I picked up this book but I am dissappointed.....

bbjunk335 said
This is good book but not for a stone cold beginninng programmer. You will find that most if not all of the wrox books are good choices for learning a new programming language. Keep up the good work wrox !

Jun Zhou Zhang said
I read this book about 2 years ago to teach myself VB6. A friend of mine recently asked me to recommend a book for him to learn basic object-oriented programming on windows and this book is the only one I can think of. The book is very clearly written as is any programming book published by Wrox. Nowadays, VB.net is much more popular. I guess if you want to learn VB, buy a book on VB.net instead.

Tanay Srivastava said
If you already have some experience in programming, I'd suggest you get a book that covers VB topics in a little more detail, rather than one that just tells you how to open a window,drop a control on the form and set properties in a space of five to ten pages - you get the idea, coz thats exactly what the book does all through.
Agreed that this is supposed to be a book for beginners but hey, anyone who has even a little bit of programming experience and possesses the intelligence of even a high school kid, does not need to be told things that are so obvious.
However for complete novices, who have no programming experience at all, this book may be of good use. All in all this is good buy for those who don't have any experience in programming at all.

Oberst Kurt Steiner said
This is an extremely well written book. Peter Wright has this way of writing that keeps you hooked on to the book. There is a sense of humor which helps. The book explains the topics in quite good detail with screen shots so that one won't get lost! The examples are bug-free and work fine. The chapter on objects and classes, though short gives quite a clear idea of object oriented programming and how VB handles it.

The only hitch I found was that Chapter 12 onwards, the book gets a little too fast and some things are explained very tersely. Moreover, there are quite a lot of grammatical errors in Chapter 13 that ruin the train of thought and are irritating! It's as though the editors didn't go through the last few chapters very well.

Overall, a very good book for anyone who wants to learn the basics of VB 6.