learn Visual Basic

bought the shirt with an “A” on it… but have never had a use for it. Good luck though!

Took the class last semester and failed it, but that was only because I didn’t do half the assignments. I still learned loads from the class, and I’m hoping to apply my new skills soon.

There’s a four month course in the neighbourhood and I think I’ll be able to manage it. But not in the next three months.Wil have to concentrate on my piano lessons till then. And then as I promised myself last year, will work on developing some small applications …

Just instaled visual studio 2005. Already have done programing in VB6 and ASP.NET 2.0 using C#

Bought SQL Server 2005 book

At Highschool I learned the basics(short programs)But I get good stuff from the Net to accomplish my goals! I´ll give a try!

not only there is too many programmers in the world making new software, I’ve been told there are much better programming languajes to learn. However, the truth is that I just don’t hae any time. I think I rather re-learn Pro-E, MathCAD or Mathematica.

There are many wonderful languages that are calling for new programmers. Please learn C, C plus plus , Pascal/Delphi, Java, or Assembly. Don’t learn VB.NET—or if you simply must, please learn BASIC. BASIC is a great language and Visual Basic was one of the best RAD tools ever created all the up through VB 6 (before it became .NET). The language was gutted, syntax mangled, and 6 versions of Visual Basic code was deprecated. Please don’t put your faith in a language controlled by an entity who’s bottom line is NOT in our best interest, as developers. Given the complexity of VB.NET you may just as well learn C/C++.

...but be ready to give up a lot of time on getting up to speed on it all. Getting a good VB guide book is an absolute pre-requisite! After that, expect to spend a fair amount of time tinkering to get your programs working as you intend them to do. When you get something working, though, it’s a massive feeling of satisfaction.

For example, I bought a Nintendo DS a while back to play the brain training games and stimulate my under-exercised intellect. While the brain training on the DS is great, I thought I could get a little more from some of the exercises if I re-created them on my home PC and made a few changes to customise them for my own mental development/stimulation. The new programs took a while to develop, but now that I’ve finished them, they are absolutely great. (The development of my programs was a great mental workout, too.)

I made my bread and butter off of Visual Basic in the 90’s but I would recommend strongly that you don’t bother. The better days of VB are long behind it.

I have switched all my development efforts over to C# and C+. Yes, C+ is harder but C# is not. If you want to learn a Microsoft devlepment language, choose C# over VB.

I put it this way: Microsoft took the ease of VB, avoided the mistakes of Java and the took the power of C++ and made a new language called C#.

My particular class was REALLY hard. But I got through it, and was very proud of myself.