INDIANAPOLIS, IN, May 3, 1999 -- Paul Sheriff Teaches Visual Basic 6, Que's latest addition to its Author Teaches series, is for the beginning programmer who wants to understand Visual Basic applications the right way. Paul Sheriff shares his experience and know-how with users who have little or no Visual Basic or Windows programming experience.

Sheriff's extensive know-how enables him to teach Visual Basic in a format that has never been so easy. He literally lays everything out in front of the reader in a no-nonsense, easy-to-understand style. The focus is on good coding practices such as industry-accepted naming standards, indentation, and code reusability. He covers relevant and timely topics such as today's uses and the future of Visual Basic. Sheriff explains the ins and outs of event-driven VS procedural programming, shows the components of a VB application, and teaches beginners how to create menus and database applications.

Readers of Sheriff's book walk away knowing how to use the VB Debugger and write functions, procedures, and basic objects. Simply put, students of Paul Sheriff will learn the syntax of the Visual Basic programming language and the event-driven programming, and know how to put together a complete Visual Basic application.

This series' "over-the-shoulder consultant" approach is earning Que's Author Teaches the title of "the best advice from the best authors." Readers benefit from the straightforward, expert advice of leaders in the industry.

The series offers a personal, tutorial style with advice, opinions, and results from the best of the best. Other books in the series include Woody Leonhard Teaches Microsoft® Office, Dan Gookin Teaches Windows® 98, Peter Coffee Teaches PCs, and Harley Hahn® Teaches the Internet.

Paul Sheriff is a recognized leader in the Visual Basic industry. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft and Access/VBA Developer conferences, and is a contributing editor to Access/VBA Advisor magazine. Paul also appears in over 35 Visual Basic and SQL Server videos with Keystone Learning Systems.

Sams Teach Yourself Year 2000 Crisis Survival in 10 Minutes offers best preparation techniques

INDIANAPOLIS, May 10, 1999 - With doom and gloomers fearing a ride of the Four Horsemen and up-to-their-neck hopefuls praying for suddenly zero balances, there's no shortage of theories for what midnight at the new millennium might bring. But beyond reportage on some of the insanity, little has been written on what John and Sue Q. Public should do to ready themselves for the Year 2000 (Y2K). Most tomes preach about what big businesses need to address. However, Ed Paulson's new book, Sams Teach Yourself Year 2000 Crisis in 10 Minutes, brings the discussion down to a personal level.

Without dismissing the problem altogether, Paulson debunks many of the myths surrounding the "end of the world" and shares the best advice on how to prepare for the most talked about turn of the calendar in at least a thousand years. Relevant chapters include discussions of the Y2K effect on the personal computer, the joint bank account, and whether or not Grandma should fly on New Year's Day. Sams Teach Yourself Year 2000 Crisis in 10 Minutes is for the non-technical consumer who simply wants to know how he or she might be inconvenienced by this timely uncertainty.

And timing is everything. Sams Teach Yourself Year 2000 Crisis in 10 Minutes, a step-by-step tutorial that's digestible in ten-minute swallows, lets readers easily grasp concepts without bogging them down in a history of technology or the hysterics of the hype.