which book should i get?

[termeric]

Hello,

i want to learn VB and need some advice on which book would be better to learn VB from the ground up. i took some programming classes in college(c++ & vb), but that was at least 5 years ago, so im not sure how much of a foundation i have left.

the two books i am looking at are,

VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel

and

Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA

any suggestions as to which would serve me better?

thanks

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hi

They're both very good - I'm not sure I could say which one was "better". I do rather like John Walkenbach's book's structure though - I think it probably flows a little better than Bill's (but this is a totally personal thing - the upshot is I don't think you can go wrong with either).

Another book I really like is:

Programming Excel with VBA and .NET, by J Webb

This is very comprehensive and has a lot of detail. Not sure I would recommend this as a first book though - I think the two you've already mentioned are better for that.

 

[General Ledger]

I am recent to VBA also. I bought Excel 2003 VBA by Kimmel, Green, Bullen, Bovey, Rosenberg, and Patterson, published by WROX. It is over my head. It gives a lot of information about what can be done and examples of code. If you want to simply copy what they did it is fine. But if you want to build on their examples, it is short on making it clear to me how the instructions work so I can edit to make it do what I want. Therefore, I would not recommend it to any beginners.

Best regards,

General Ledger