ROD STEPHENS started out as a mathematician, but while studying at MIT,

discovered how much fun programming is and has been programming profes-

sionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment

of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatch-

ing, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography,

and training for professional football players.

Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and has

taught introductory programming at ITT Technical Institute. He has written

more than 20 books that have been translated into languages from all over the world, and more

than 250 magazine articles covering C#, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and

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