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Subject:Re: Learning Visual Basic - Books for beginners From:sguttman -at- semantix -dot- com (Susan Guttman) To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:30:59 -0500
I picked up the Sams "Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 21 Days" and "Teach
Yourself More Visual basic in 21 days" (sold as a boxed set), and found them
quite useful.
S/B
Sarah Newman cried out unto the wilderness thusly:
> In the interests of becoming a more "techie" tech writer, I'd like to
learn
> Visual Basic. I didn't find anything in the archives. Here are some of the
> books for beginners that I've found:
>
> * Beginning Visual Basic 6 by Peter Wright
> * Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Step-by-Step by Michael
> Halverson
> * Visual Basic 6 for Dummies by Wally Wang
> * Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6 by John Smiley
>
> I would appreciate any recommendations on these or other books on this
> topic. Thanks,
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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