"Easy to use and fun to learn, Visual Basic is the state of the art in Basic programming and the language that allows you to take full control of Microsoft's best-selling Windows applications." "Written by best-selling author David I. Schneider, An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 6.0 assumes no prior programming experience and includes these important pedagogical features: carefully teaches thefundamentals of accurate, modern programming methodology; explains how to use Visual Basic as a front end to take control of major applications such as Microsoft Office; includes an entire chapter on the data control, database programming with Visual Basic, and an introduction to SQL; and supplies numerous examples and exercises that students and professionals can appreciate."--Jacket.