Although it is probably not the author's intent, this is the funniest programming book I have ever read. (Yes, even funnier than Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java.) A co-worker and I have been laughing out loud after reading parts of it.

My favourite part so far is the introduction to variables. The author describes memory as a sheet of graph paper, and points out that if one had enough graph paper to represent 16 megabytes, it would take up an area "approximately 85.33 feet wide and 85.33 feet high." (What is 'approximate' about taking a measurement to two decimal places? Why would it be measured in height and width instead of length and width? Am I supposed to imagine all those sheets of graph paper standing on end?) He goes on to point out that if each square of graph paper actually represented a bit instead of a byte, then 16 megabytes would actually cover three football fields. (In case people don't know what graph paper or a football field looks like, there are illustrations of each.)

After instructing the reader to imagine three football fields covered in graph paper, comes the punchline: "Now that you have a general idea of what memory looks like, you can start to understand how the different variable types work." Priceless!

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe this guy was intentionally trying to be funny. He later mentions that a programmer "will invariably start using variables" and defines Constants this way: "Constants are nonvariable variables."

In short, if you are already a programmer, pick this up for the laughs. Everyone else should leave it in the bargain bin.

Well it is not bad , but i had so much difficulties in the start i guess cause the author don't explain some codes so i had to rely on MSDN help to help me understanding some codes , but i did understand good at the end of the book so i guess you need to read all book before you really can grasp visual basic , i liked Mastering Visual Basic 6 it was just great but Visual basic in record time was not a bad start you need at least to know a little on Visual basic if you want to read Mastering Visual basic

I and another instructor used this as a textbook for a visual basic desktop development course. We both thought it was excellent. We liked that the author covers 19 specific skills at the introductory level. It was not over taxing for the beginner, yet it gave an excellent overview of what could be done in a single-user environment.

There is no discussion of using VB6 in the enterprise (nor should there be at this level). There are other excellent texts that deal in more detail with database programming, and those should definitely be the next step for someone interested in business applications, but this book will get the beginner actually writing complete desktop applications.

What does it lack? In-depth discussion/application of object oriented programming. Database applications. In-depth examples on ActiveX and COM. Anything you might be looking for if you have already been programming in Visual Basic for more than a year.

That is not to fault this book at what its purpose was -> get a newbie up to speed in VB6. We teach more advanced courses and use other books for those. This is an excellent introduction to VB6. Highly recommended for the beginner to intermediate programmer.

Beware those Adobe-endorsed books. While there are some useful examples herein, most of this is just one long diatribe on the virtues of Adobe and their pivotal place in developing web content. If you're looking to this book to discover how to publish for the web, there are precious few really useful pointers. While the Adobe Classroom in a Book series is instructive, their other titles are of very limitted usefulness (and often very expensive). This book is no exception. Lacks any real discussion of the intricacies of web design. Say nay. Docked a notch for being so expensive.

It's true, this book focuses exclusively on Adobe software, but it IS called Adobe Web Design & Publishing. The warning is right there in the title. That said, it's a tome of useful tips on using Adobe software to create professional quality web sites and graphics. If you use Adobe software to create web sites, consider buying this book. One caveat: Adobe Web Design & Publishing does not cover Adobe's latest and greatest web site design software, Go Live. Hopefully the next version will.

What a cute title! What a terrible book. I couldn't finish it, I felt embarrassed for Nancy Kennedy. She seems like a very nice person but holy cow! What a warped place this would be if all women believed as she does. God bless her!

Move Over Victoria - I Know the Real Secret! is Nancy Kennedy's best work yet. With bold, brazen, and bare-bones honesty, Nancy exposes her flaws, weaknesses, and secret idols to help us understand ours. (This book is NOT for the faint-hearted "fluff" reader!) She's humble, but humourous, interweaving often (painfully) funny and embarrassing life experiences throughout. As she shares the truth about her own idols, the author encourages us to search out the "things" that hinder our personal relationship with God. The thought-provoking questions at the end of each chatper will challenge you to confront your own "stuff." (It did me.) She convicts without condemning, discomforts without discouraging. Nancy is so easy to identify with - because she's real(and she does know the real secret).

The book declares in the introduction that it is not a book for scholars or professional communicators. I wish I had seen this before I bought it. What I was really looking for was some help for my public speaking skills. The book really is a compendium of "common sense" that we should use when we communicate with others. We should have learned most of this through our own life experience while interacting with others, but it is all here in one convenient package so that we don't have to go looking everywhere for this information.

Even though the book is entertaining and it never purports to be the type of book that I was searching for, it really did not tell me anything that I already didn't know. It does give advice on how to "give a speech" for example, but the advice is too vague and not specific enough to be of great help (like, "legitimize your fear"; "illucidate you fear"; "embrace your fear"; "the best way to make an impression is by making the impression that you are not trying to make an impression", etc.) While the book is good so far as it goes and the advice is true, I just did not see that it added much to most readers' knowledge about the subject. If you do need a book with lots of awesome practical tips for public speaking then get Tony Jeary's "Inspire Any Audience".

The layout of the book is good with clear instructions and charts, but I personally found the designs a bit boring ,monotonous and repetitive.

Content is weak and disorganized, no information on fundamental VB syntax such as loops or conditional expressions, examples the few that exist are poor. Not worth considering...

This book is very poorly organized, has virtually nothing on practical VB coding, omits key introductory parts of the language such as looping and branching, the examples are poor and riddled with errors. Bottom line is don't waste your money.. consider something else.

This book tries - successfully in my opinion, to fit in somewhere between the "for dummies" series and a developer's handbook. You won't find advanced topics here, but if you're looking for a "building from the basics" introduction to VB then this book appears to fit the bill. I got my copy from the library and now I'm buying it.

Once again, a juvenile book under the guise of science containing dreadful experiments has been published. But why? The so-called figures are silly pen drawings that add absolutely nothing to understanding what little concepts Wood has presented. But it has such a slick cover and wonderful feeling pages that folks will be hard-pressed to pass it up, especially librarians.