Title: Bag of shite - Badly organised and incomplete
Product review: Some parts of the book are well written, succinct and to the point. For example, the second chapter takes you into VB by building a simple image control. Everything you need is in the chapter.However, the rest of the book seems to have been written in a hurry. I think the book could have done with a rewrite. For example, chapter 12 which discusses API calls mentions that API calls are a way to know when a process has terminated. This is given in a list of four other things which are then demonstrated in the chapter, but how to determine if a process has terminated is not explained. In chapter 5 it was promised that this would be explained (see page 219).These are just two critisms amoungst many. The book is just not laid out in a way which will help you learn VB. I have a problem with it and two colleagues at my work place have used the book and compared it unfavourably with others on the market.
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