Get up to speed on Visual Basic 6 -- in a Weekend! Open the book Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused lessons, you'll be able to jump right in and start developing VB6 applications.
THE CURRICULUM: Friday, Creating Your First Visual Basic Program Evening, 4 lessons, 2 hours: Programming Fundamentals The VB Editor Creating an Interface Writing Code
Saturday, Mastering the Essentials Morning, 6 lessons, 3 hours: Forms and Buttons OptionButtons and CheckBoxes TextBoxes Labels and Scrollbars Shapes, Images, and Pictures Adding Menus
Afternoon, 6 lessons, 3 hours: Dialog Boxes Procedures Variables and Scope Getting User Info Math, Comparison, and Logical Operators Strings
Evening, 4 lessons, 2 hours: Looping Branching Subroutines Debugging
Sunday, Tying it All Together Morning, 6 lessons, 3 hours: Designing a Personal Database Manager Building the User Interface Creating and Connecting a Database displaying Records Searching Records Updating
Afternoon, 4 lessons, 2 hours: Using the Clipboard Letting Users Customize the Application Printing Reports Understanding Classes and Objects