About the Authors

Brian Overland started as a professional programmer back in his twenties, but also worked as a computer science, English, and math tutor. He enjoys picking up new languages, but his specialty is explaining them to others, as well as using programming to do games, puzzles, simulations, and math problems. Now he’s the author of over a dozen books on programming.

In his ten years at Microsoft he was a software tester, programmer/writer, and manager, but his greatest achievement was in presenting Visual Basic 1.0, as lead writer and overall documentation project lead. He believes that project changed the world by getting people to develop for Windows, and one of the keys to its success was showing it could be fun and easy.

He’s ...

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