Visual Basic� 6 Weekend Crash CourseTM - Softcover

Mansfield, Richard

9780764546792: Visual Basic� 6 Weekend Crash CourseTM

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764546791 ISBN 13: 9780764546792

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Is it possible to learn Visual Basic 6 in a weekend? It is with the Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course. Start with programming fundamentals on Friday evening and wrap it up with understanding classes and objects on Sunday afternoon. Come Monday morning, you′ll know how to create Visual Basic programs.

Packed with tips, screenshots, and code, the book′s 30 step–by–step lessons will have you programming in only 15 hours. A companion CD–ROM features Visual Basic 6 Working Model Edition, assessment software to help gauge your progress, and all code for the sample programs featured in the book.

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From the Back Cover:

Get up to Speed on Visual Basic 6 –– in a Weekend!
The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Visual Basic 6. The problem is, you′re not really up to speed. Maybe it′s been a while since you worked with Visual Basic or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we′ve got a solution for you –– Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused lessons, you′ll be able to jump right in and start developing VB 6 applications. It′s as simple as that.

THE CURRICULUM
FRIDAY
Creating Your First Visual Basic Program
Evening: 4 lessons, 2 hours:
Programming Fundamentals; The VB Editor; Creating an Interface; Writing Code

SATURDAY
Mastering the Essentials
Morning: 6 lessons, 3 hours:
Forms and Buttons; OptionButtons and CheckBoxes; TextBoxes; Labels and Scrollbars; Shapes, Images, and Pictures; Adding Menus
Afternoon: 6 lessons, 3 hours:
Dialog Boxes; Procedures; Variables and Scope; Getting User Info; Math, Comparison, and Logical Operators; Strings
Evening: 4 lessons, 2 hours:
Looping; Branching; Subroutines; Debugging

SUNDAY
Tying it All Together
Morning: 6 lessons, 3 hours:
Designing a Personal Database Manager; Building the User Interface; Creating and Connecting a Database; Displaying Records; Searching Records; Updating
Afternoon: 4 lessons, 2 hours:
Using the Clipboard; Letting Users Customize the Application; Printing Reports; Understanding Classes and Objects

BONUS CD–ROM INCLUDES
∗ Visual Basic 6 Working Model Edition
∗ Assessment software to help gauge your progress
∗ All codes and auxiliary files for the sample program
∗ Plus trial software from Sheridan Software Systems, LEAD Technologies, and VideoSoft

About the Author:

Just in case you care about such things, Richard Mansfield has written 25 computer books, 4 of which became bestsellers: Machine Language for Beginners, The Second Book of Machine Language, The Visual Guide to Visual Basic, and The Visual Basic Power Toolkit (with Evangelos Petroutsos). His most recent title is Hacker Attack. He has written columns and articles in computer magazines, but since 1991 he has focused full–time on writing books. Overall, his books have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into 11 languages. But that′s not the whole story. He′s extraordinarily sedentary, preferring to sit and read, write, or program his computers instead of moving around. He realizes that all this goes against the popular health craze, but so far –– so good.

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