Every experienced instructor knows that students have a variety of learning styles. During the survey and reviewing process for this book, we found that many instructors wanted object-oriented programming to be emphasized much more strongly than in existing Visual Basic textbooks. Discussions about program design, coding style, object-oriented concepts . These concepts are at the core of a solid computer science education. A short table of contents is displayed at the beginning of each chapter.
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The reader can ignore these without disturbing the flow of the main text body, and come back to them later. Reference information on Visual Basic, ADO connections and recordsets, SQL query language, Data Report Designer, the Windows API, ActiveX components, and online help. The Microsoft manuals and online help are wonderful, but it's not easy to limit the scope of information. In this book, you find lots of tables and lists, just when you need to use them in a program. Hands-on programming examples that guide the reader while working at the computer.