Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Misses the Mark

This is the first review I've ever written. I have to say that I'm very dissappointed with this book. As far as a reference book I think it's good, but as far as a book to learn VB.NET, it's terrible. It spends about 300 pages just talking about general and OOP principles. Then when it finally does get into making programs in VB.NET, it just gives small code "snippets". Furthermore, it wastes pages of code showing you how to set properties that can easily be set using the GUI. At the end of the end of the book you're left with a bunch of cute snippets but example of how to pull it all together. This book should really be called VB.NET by "Snippets" because as far as how to make a real program that actually does something...there is no "Example". If you're new to VB.NET and need something to get you up and going...look somewhere else. I bought the Microsoft VB.NET "Step-by-Step"...hopefully it'll be better than this book.