Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

[Sudevan, Padmanabhan]

I have "VBA for Dummies", which is good. I also have VBA Developers'
Handbook, which is large and technical. However, as I am beginning to
learn VB and VBA, I am wondering about the differences between all the
versions. My software is version 6.3 ( attached to Word 2003 and Excel
2003 ). Will any of the editions of "VBA for Dummies" be equally
helpful? Some of the windows and features in VB 6.3 seem to be different
from earlier versions.

I don't find programming per se a problem, having done Fortran and C++
programmimg in the ( somewhat distant ) past. I agree that the E-Prime
reference is a better description of the language at an
easy-to-understand level.

P Sudevan
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Faculty Senate
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point


-----Original Message-----
From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
Behalf Of Jordan Bigio
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:14 PM
To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: Re: Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

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.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Carol Miller, Ph.D.
>Dept. of Communication Sciences & Disorders
>Penn State University
>115-B Moore Building
>(814) 865-6213
>cam47 at psu.edu
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>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.
>>
>>-------
>>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
>
>

Jordan D. Bigio, B.A.
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
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