Intro Programming course is estimated currently at 150-200,000 and growing. Visual Basic is taking over where BASIC, Qbasic, and QuickBasic once dominated, in the Introductory Business Programming course. That trend will continue as VB continues to encroach on other less progressive languages such as COBOL and the Basic variations listed above within CIS and Business departments. The courses that can be supported by this text are not specific to any one type of institution, since VB in a Business course is largely a functional topic needed by all types of students from 2-4 year, to Vo-Tech, to extended, to even adult education.
A fairly comprehensive look at VB6. Like any text, there were a few errors, especially with object and variable names in the code examples and a step or two left out here and there. But nothing so major as to completely confuse the reader. It could have spent a little more time covering some of the topics like scroll bars and tabbed controls and they almost completely ignored the use of common dialog boxes. It seemed that, by the last two or three chapters, they were just trying to cram as much as they could in without making the book any larger than it was. All in all, you could do a lot worse for a beginning VB6 book.