Simply Programming C# and Visual Basic

Introduction to C and VB Simply Programming This book is for anyone interested in working with either C or Visual Basic or both Honestly if you are a person with a trace of logical thinking and the desire to learn you can do everything discussed in this book When you re done you can be confident that you are able and ready to pursue and master advanced programming topics with every reason to expect complete success The vocabulary you will need is developed in a methodical thoughtful process by relating techniques to results It is not a memorization exercise My personal preference is C probably because I started working with C at AT T Computer Systems when C was in its infancy For a beginner VB is a little less demanding and accomplishes the same job just a little differently in terms of syntax and a few key words Remember the old saying Monkey see Monkey do It should say Monkey see Monkey do Monkey learn The text is very focused Almost every sentence is an instruction to do something or explains very pointedly the expected results of what you are going to do In most Teach Yourself books you read many many pages and get forget concepts confused before you put them to work Forgetting or being confused by waiting will not be your experience this time Concepts are presented in bite sized units that make immediate use of the ideas The focus is doing I ll say it several times before we re done If you re not making any mistakes you re not trying hard enough Experiment and learn I progresses rapidly through the fundaments of developing and testing applications that work with minimal discussion of issues of little or no immediate use The vocabulary is kept to every possible extent to plain English The examples are written with the idea that they will be used as reference and copy and paste code for other application the reader will develop on their own later Neither time nor effort is wasted filtering through text that accompli