Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

[Jordan Bigio]

You can get "VBA for Dummies" off the internet at B&N or Borders or 
whatever. I have it, but haven't used it, so can't give more input than that.

Jordan

At 02:03 PM 6/29/2005 -0400, Carol Anne Miller wrote:
>I would like to hear these suggestions, too.  Ideally a book that could be 
>called "Visual Basic for the Non-Programmer."  I'd just like to feel that 
>I can easily write macros in various programs that use VB or something 
>based on it.  Everytime I've looked into books about VB, they seem to be 
>aimed at such a different audience that can't even get a foothold.  It's 
>hard to explain what the problem is, but I know I've never found a book 
>that helped me.  The E-prime manual is probably more helpful than most.
>
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>Carol Miller, Ph.D.
>Dept. of Communication Sciences & Disorders
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>At 01:46 PM 06/29/2005, you wrote:
>
>>I have a student who wants to learn how to write Visual Basic code.  She 
>>has very little background in programming, but that's what Basic was 
>>designed for all those years ago.   There are a lot of books out there on 
>>Visual Basic and it would help a lot if we could get some advice to 
>>narrow them down to one or two that are well written and good for getting 
>>started.   No advanced material on graphics, sockets, databases etc. 
>>needed.   Thanks.
>>
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>>Harvey G. Shulman, PhD
>>Department of Psychology
>>The Ohio State University
>>201 Lazenby Hall
>>Columbus, OH 43210
>>ph 614 292-2759  fax 614 688-3984
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>

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