This book starts off as so many other programming books do,with a few exeptions. The history is brief and to the point. The first chapter is dedicated to getting you ready for hands on Work with Visual Basic 6, and assumes a prior knowledge of basic Windows expierience. I find this book the be an exellent
resource for anyone wanting to learn Visual Basic. The few problems I found, was the constant repeating of "How to do his..." For myself this is rather annoying but for the beginner this "feature" will help you to remember simple things such as changing properties. When you complete this book, you will be ready to start writing you own Visual Basic programs with ease. One Word of warning, chapter 4 is a very in depth look at variables. Im now sure what the auther was thinking by putting so much information in one chapter, but at least is makes for easy refrence. The way I got through chapter 4 was to take lots and lots of notes, and refer back to them as needed. How ever after working with variables through out the book there's no doubt you can master them.