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Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2008 as quickly and easily as possible.There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal:Youre a beginner to programming and youve chosen Visual Basic 2008 as the place to start. Thats a great choice! Visual Basic 2008 is not only easy to learn, its also fun to use and very powerful.You can program in another language but youre a beginner to .NET programming. Again, youve made a great choice! Whether youve come from Fortran or Visual Basic 6, youll find that this book quickly gets you up to speed on what you need to know to get the most from Visual Basic 2008.Visual Basic 2008 offers a great deal of functionality in both tools and la...

A solid introduction to programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platformThe Mac OS X Snow Leopard system comes with everything you need in its complete set of development tools and resources. However, finding where to begin can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal starting point for programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the details of each featured example so that you can type them out, run them, and even figure out how to debug them when they don't work right. Taking into account that there is usually more than one way to do something when programming, the authors encourage you to experiment with a variety of solutions. This approach enables you to efficiently start writing programs in...

This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the prospect of learning and using a powerful language that provides a rich infrastructure for creating programs. No programming knowledge is necessary to benefit from this book except for the section on Lua bindings, which requires some familiarity with the C programming language. A certain comfort level with command-line operations, text editing, and directory structures is assumed.You need surprisingly little in the way of computer resources to learn and use Lua. This book focuses on Windows and Unix-like (including Linux) systems, but any operating system that supports a command shell should be suitable. You'll need a text editor to prepare and save Lua scripts.If you choose to exte...