Product Description

If you’re looking for a solid introduction to programming with WSH and VBScript, then this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. By following along with the exercises in this book, you’ll acquire the skills you need to write more practical WSH and VBScript programming applications and will learn how these skills can be put to use in real-world scenarios. Best of all, by the time you finish this book, you will be able to apply the basic principles you’ve learned to the next programming language you tackle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #917905 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

About the Author
Jerry Lee Ford, Jr. is an author, educator, and IT professional with over 13 years experience in information technology. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and has also earned Microsoft's MCP & MCP+Internet certification. He holds a master's degree in Business Administration and has been a part-time IT instructor for five years. Jerry is the author of nine books, including "Microsoft Windows Shell Scripting and WSH Administrator's Guide" (ISBN: 1931841268). He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and sons.

Customer Reviews

An Absolute Must Have!
This book is an absolute must for the beginning VBScript programmer. Not only does Ford provide step-by-step direction to scripting, gradually ramping the complexity of the exercises, but he leaves the reader with WORKING scripts in the form of games with foundational concepts applicable to real-world scripting development.

My primary objective was to learn VBScripting basics to support script enhancements for Mercury Interactive's QuickTest Pro tool (that is based in VBScript), and this book well served its purpose.

I highly recommend it to other readers.

Not Bad
This book was a very easy read. I am a complete beginner when it comes to WSH and VBScripting. I found this book to be a great primer. The only questions the book left me with were the actual syntax of methods, properties, and built in functions. These are important areas, but I feel the book left me with a good overall understanding of the 2 topics. I am not sure I could write my own worth while script yet, but I could definitely read and understand a script already created. Only took 2 days of reading to complete this book and my interest was kept the whole time.

Starts by building a good foundation.
I need to learn VBScript for work. I purchased this book and On The Job Training Series: VBScript by CBT Nuggets. I liked the CBT but I felt like I was walking into a movie 20 minutes late. The content was good but I felt like I was missing a good foundation of knowledge. This book started out exactly as I thought it should. It started out by making really simple scripts and then building on that knowledge by making progressively larger ones. People always wonder about typos in technical books. Through the first 100 pages, I have caught a few typos but they have been minor in nature. None of them has impaired my ability to learn. I bought this book because it was amongst the newest VBScript books available. I'm pleased to see it is also a high quality book.