Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Is it possible to learn Visual Basic 6 in a weekend? It is with the Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course. Start with programming fundamentals on Friday evening and wrap it up with understanding classes and objects on Sunday afternoon. Come Monday morning, you'll know how to create Visual Basic programs. Packed with tips, screenshots, and code, the book's 30 step-by-step lessons will have you programming in only 15 hours. A companion CD-ROM features Visual Basic 6 Working Model Edition, assessment software to help gauge your progress, and all code for the sample programs featured in the book.




Visual Basic.Net Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Learn Visual Basic .NET fast! With Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on designing and developing programs with the newest version of the world's most popular programming language -- in a single weekend! Visual Basic .NET Weekend Crash Course will have VB .NET would-be programmers coding in fifteen hours. Veteran author Richard Mansfield guides you through the Visual Basic .NET language and tools and enables you to create next-generation applications for the Microsoft.NET Platform. People who want to learn Visual Basic .NET quickly and people who know 'traditional' Visual Basic benefit from Richard's expert coverage of topics that include: The new Visual Basic.NET IDE; Labels, Buttons, Boxes, and Dialogs; Images, Pictures, and Shapes; Procedures, Variables, and Scope; Comparison, Math, and Logical operators; Arrays, Looping, and Branching; Bug fixing; Designing, building, and accessing ADO+ databases; Classes and Objects.




JSP Weekend Crash Course


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Learn JSP fast! With JSP Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on developing dynamic Web sites using Java Server Pages in a single weekend! JSP Weekend Crash Course explains how to use Java Server Pages to deliver dynamic web content. It explains client-server architecture, installing a JSP development environment, and how to write JSP servlets. Other important topics include: handling exceptions and errors in JSP; effectively using JSP with Java Beans, XML, and JavaScript; tracking users with sessions and cookies; and using the JDBC to set up, connect, and access a database from a JSP web page.




Creating Web Pages Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Learn to build Web pages -- FAST! With Creating Web Pages Weekend Crash Course, you'll get up to speed on how to create dynamic Web pages in a single weekend! This book covers all the skills necessary to create a simple but full-featured Web site that includes attractively formatted text and graphics, animation, audio and video, as well as automated user feedback. The author discusses several different WYSIWYG editors (not just one), and their pros and cons, but will also offer a good grounding in correct, standard HTML. The book includes simple explanations and practical examples of current technologies such as XML, dynamic page generation, and streaming media.




Linux Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Learn Linux fast! With Linux Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on configuring and using the most popular Linux OS distributions available today -- in a single weekend! Linux Weekend Crash Course consists of 30 sessions that teach you the core concepts of Linux over the course of a single weekend (from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon). Naturally, you can adapt this learning pace to whatever schedule meets your needs. Coverage crosses a broad range of topics, including: installing Linux; using Linux for the first time; configuring the X Window System; installing and troubleshooting a printer; multimedia applications; and monitoring systems.




C# Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Learn Microsoft's hot new C# language fast. With this guide, readers can get up to speed on designing and developing.NET applications in a single weekend.




MySQL Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Quickly learn MySQL -- the leading open source relational database management system! With MySQL Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed creating MySQL database applications in a single weekend! This book is for Web Developers and Programmers with no prior knowledge of MySQL. This crash course will help you learn how to use MySQL to get database applications to work quickly on the Web.




Visual Basic .NET All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies


Book Description

Visual Basic .NET made clear! Covers all aspects of VB .NET programming in seven self-contained minibooks: Visual Basic .NET Programming Fundamentals, Advanced Visual Basic .NET Programming, The .NET Editor, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming for the Web, Database Programming, and Graphics and Games Visual Basic is the primary tool of more than fifty percent of all professional developers, so the upgrade to VB .NET represents a major paradigm shift; this handy all-in-one guide gives them easy access to valuable information Guides the reader through getting integrated with the rest of Visual Studio .NET, covers programmatic encryption and other .NET security capabilities, and shows how to program for Web services with VB .NET and ASP.NET Companion Web site includes a must-have bonus appendix that provides parallel VB 6 and VB .NET sample code to help VB programmers make the somewhat difficult transition to .NET




ASP.NET Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Open the book on Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon ñ- after completing 30 fast, focused lessons - you will have mastered the skills necessary to begin creating robust, dynamic, data-driven web applications with ASP.NET. In just one weekend, expert developer Robert Standefer leads you into the new world ofMicrosoft.NET, and enables you to create robust, dynamic, data-drive web applications. Starting with ASP.NETbasics, Robert teaches you what you need to know to begin creating ASP.NET applications quickly, and easily. This book is a must have for any developer building web applications on Microsoft's new .NET Framework.




JavaScript? Weekend Crash Course


Book Description

Learn JavaScript fast! With JavaScript Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed programming JavaScript applications in a single weekend! This book begins at the beginning and assumes no prior JavaScript experience. You'll learn the essentials of JavaScript from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon.