About the Author

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With long experience in both technology and training people to use it, Brian Overland is uniquely qualified to write books that simplify difficult concepts. He began programming professionally in C in the 1980s, working on a software-driven irrigation system used all over the globe. He also taught programming and English composition at a community college while writing film and drama reviews. At Microsoft, he spent a decade rising from tester and tech-support specialist to project lead and manager. As a project lead of Visual Basic 1.0, he played a key role in bringing easy Windows programming to the world and explaining how to ...

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