Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

[Leisha Wharfield]

What helped for me when I started out learning Dbase was that I found an 
author who wrote in easy-to-understand English, even though he published 
huge manuals that allowed me to figure out how to do whatever I needed 
to do. I had a programmer tutor me once. He brought a small, sample 
program and explained to me how it worked. After that, I just took the 
manual & went for it.

My advice is to have your student peruse the available manuals and 
decide which is easiest for her to understand. Something with easy 
lessons, where she can copy in or download sample programs would be great.

The Eprime tutorial is good for that, too, I agree. There's no fast way; 
it's learning a language.

Leisha

Harvey Shulman wrote:

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> 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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