Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not for the beginner

Are you new to programming? If yes, then Visual Basic is a great place to start. This book, however, is not. The first day introduces you to the Integrated Development Environment. From that point forward, it's all about the code. This is a good book for slightly more advanced programmers instead of newbies, but I feel the title is very miss leading. If you are new to programming and want to lean Visual Basic.Net 2003, try Microsoft Visual Basic .Net Step by Step written by Michael Halvorson (ISBN 0735619050). It is a much better place to start for the true beginner.After you have gone through the step-by-step book, come back to this one. It really is a good book. (Score should have been a 4 not a 1.)