who knows the book "Doing objects in Visual Basic 4.0" by Debbie Kurata.
Is it good? Where to get it?

Please tell me.

Thanks

It's pretty good, gives lots of code you can use/get ideas from.

BUT I hate it when authors give supposedly re-useable code and put in
a  little disclaimer something like this "of course a responsible
programmer would implement error handling in the above example".
GRRRRR! The example given is ultimately a part of an executable
application that comes on the accompanying disk!

Of course, a responsible author would include at least one example
complete with error handling...

Must be nice to be an author and not have to deal with the reality of
error handling! But it leads newbies to belive it's not all that
important.

However, I still consider the book a really useful view of
implementing OOPS in OOPS-wannabe-VB. VB has come a long way towards
object-orientedness, but still has a ways to go.

- Wes Williamson

That said, I find Deborah Kurata's book to be quite good in this
respect. The examples are big enough to have some relevance to the
real world. The MSoft courses, OTOH, are so trivialised that it's
difficult to extend them into anything useful. I often find that
students on an MSoft course will ask me to extend an example to solve
a problem they've brought with them, and we often can't do it. The
approach that MSoft have taken is so simplistic that it's incapable of
being more than a basic syntax example.

I'm teaching this week, and working on some code examples right now.
I'm using cut-down "live code" and it's quite difficult to use this
stuff _because_ it has full error handling. The code is so bloated by
the need to deal with the one-in-a-million chances that it's difficult
to see just what the crucial section is. This is particularly the case
when you're dealing with people who are really new to VB.

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  - Noel Coward, on seeing the young Bonnie Langford on stage