VB Starter books

Try these books if you are starting out with VB:

Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6 by John Smiley Designed to introduce the world of Visual Basic programming to the absolute beginner, John Smiley's Learn to Program with Visual Basic is one of the more innovative titles on the market.
Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Beginning Visual Basic 6 by Peter Wright If you have no Visual Basic experience but have a desire to learn about the language, you'll find Peter Wright's Beginning Visual Basic 6 useful. Furthermore, you'll find it useful for more than a week--the author covers advanced problems as well as language fundamentals.
Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Learn to Program Visual Basic Examples by John Smiley Written for the beginning Visual Basic programmer, John Smiley's Learn to Program with Visual Basic Examples provides 100 examples of common Visual Basic problems and gotchas. A supplement to the author's excellent VB primer Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6, this book can certainly deepen the knowledge of any novice VB programmer.
Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Paul Sheriff Teaches Visual Basic 6 by Pauld. Sheriff, Paul Sheriff Paul Sheriff has taught Visual Basic long enough to know what beginning programmers want. This book is designed for programmers that have little or no Visual Basic or Windows programming experience. Students will learn the syntax of the Visual Basic language, event driven programming, and how to put together a complete Visual Basic application.
Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Visual Basic® 6 For Dummies© Quick Reference by Namir Clement Shammas In Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference, Namir Shammas provides what would be called an executive summary of VB6--if executives wrote code. He's culled all the important features of the language into a handy, spiral-bound book that's just right for reference. It's a fine place to turn when you want to know how to structure an If-Then-Else statement or what properties the Print dialog box supports.
Buy from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk	Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 : Deluxe Learning by Michael Halvorson (Editor) This three-volume kit contains a fully supported copy of Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition, the MSCN Library on two CD-ROMs, a multimedia tutorial, and two programming guidebooks, thus enabling a shift between intuitive, computer-based training and detailed print tutorials.

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