Michael Halvorson

I needed to know visual basic so that I could write a computer program in my chemistry research lab. I had very little training beforehand. This book taught me most of the stuff I needed to know to do that. The step by step instructions were valuable and the interactive CD that came with it helped a lot. I recommend it highly.

This is a good introductory level book for VB6. Of course, in the world of technology, that means almost nothing now that VB6 has been superseded by Dot Net. I may be alone in preferring VB6 but that has little to do with the merits of this book. As a Microsoft publication the book reminds me too much of their help. It's good up to a point, but it rarely takes you into those little nooks and crannies that you really need to get the serious job done.