Introduction to Visual Basic Using .NET Book

Not as good as Little/Seasoned/etc Schemer, but still interesting.

The weirdest thing is probably that all examples are in Java, but at the same time, they aren't due to the usage of the superscripts and some mathematical symbols. Given the fact that they had to do some extreme name shortening to fit the source code into narrow columns I'd probably consider ditching the Java syntax and use more pseudo-code style since it will be very easy to translate to the actual Java code, but it will be more readable.

It was interesting to see some footnotes making parallels with the functional programming. In fact, I probably would want more of that.

Also, it was clear that the book was written way before the introduction of templates in Java. It would help to avoid some type-casting and heavy-use of Object as a most common denominator type.