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Title: A valuable collection of tools -- I wish
Review: Sorry, I read this book, but didn't think much of it. I was able to pick up a few valuable tidbits, but overall thought the book's title and promise didn't deliver.Avoiding bugs, it seems, has much to do with following good programming practices and perhaps that should have been the book's title. Much wasted time is spent on telling us how to indent lines of code, how to line up our comments, and admonitions to fix our own bugs and to be alert when you test.There was 20 pages of good stuff and the rest was fluff. It was as if Rod Stephens needed to put out a book fast and just shotgunned his many years of programming experience at us, hoping something would stick and save us from having too many bugs.I realize I now own 4 of his books, but none are even in my top 10 Visual Basic books. If I could have read the book first and then paid for it, I would have paid 5 bucks.
