It's worthwhile to pause here and contrast the style of this book with another great learning book that is also reviewed at About Visual Basic, Jesse Liberty's Learning Visual Basic .NET. Jesse concentrates on a deep understanding of the 'how' and 'why' of .NET and VB.NET as a particular implementation. He hardly mentions Windows, telling you how object oriented programming has been implemented in VB.NET instead. By contrast, this book just tells you what you need to know about OOP and gets you into writing code as quickly as possible and assumes Windows without much consideration for anything else. You can choose either approach depending on what you think will work best.