I am 61 years old. At one time in my life I did some programming in FORTRAN and GWBASIC. The programs which I wrote are still useful and valid. Now I want to convert those to GUI based with VB. My problem is that I find books on VB very tough to understand. 35 years ago I learnt FORTRAN from a book called "Fortran by Engineering applications" by Daniel D Mccracken. It was a wonderful book. No introductions, no definitions, no theory and straight on the job. To the best of my memory, the first chapter was finding area of a circle by using Fortran, the second was to convert fahreinheit to cetigrade and vice-versa. In every subsequent chapter, one will learn new things. By the time one has finished the book, he had mastered FORTRAN. I want to know if any such book exists for VB. I know what is variable / constants, arrays, strings, algorithms, compilation, if / then, do loops etc. Please help me and appreciate my desire for learning new things, when my peers are discussing about their blood pressure and colestral count.