Hello everyone

Hello everybody. New here. I was referred here by the Virtual Dr. computer forum. Am learning Visual Basic 4 for Windows 95.

Anyways I am using the VB 4 for Dummies book. While the book is good, it has a drawback for me. It does not give a project to work on while you are learning. It just points out how to use the different functions etc. I need a project to work on to help me learn and since all I know is I want to learn VB, but I don't have anything specific in mind as far as what I want to do as of yet. I would like to know if anyone real knowledgable could point me in the direction of some kind of visual basic projects for REALLY NOOBY BEGINNERS.

This would help me learn greatly. Thanks for any assistance anyone can give me.

Welcome ot the forums :). You can try this website http://www.vb4all.net/ . But you should try to upgrade to atleast visual basic 6 because there has been massive changes and improvements in it.

Things to do when you are a beginner:

Make a..
- Calculator
- Notepad Look alike (with load/save/print etc)
- Frogger game

That should keep you busy for the upcoming weeks :)

Welcome to the Forums :wave:

One of the first projects I tackled when making the switch to VB was a simple calculator. One that performs the 4 simple arithmetic functions, multiply, divide, add & subtract.

Why don't you try and make a start on something like that and get back to us here when you run into problems or need help.

Just a thought... good luck :thumb:

Welcome.

Full working projects, or just source code snippets?

If it is snippets, look no further than the Codebank-VB6 forum.

If it is full projects, you may want to look at Planet Source Code. However, be warned, most samples will require VB 5 at least. There isn't much support for VB 4 any more, it has been surpassed by 5 and 6. 6 just adds a few small new features to 5.

There'll be no upgrading to VB 6 for a while as VB6 is exorbitantly expensive and I got a brand new copy(still in shrinkwrap) of VB4 off Ebay for $5. So everyone is just going to have to bear with me. As for VB4 support, you guys will be all the support I'll need. :D

The VB for Dummies book is frustrating to me in the sense when you get to the coding part it doesn't give you a specific project to work on. I learned a little basic programming in high school(80's) and learned some Basic on my own on an old 8-bit Atari computer back in the day. The basic books back then gave you projects to work on which greatly helped me to learn. The VB for Dummies so far has totally missed the boat with that. Damn, what a disappointment.

Well VB4 is missing certain properties and such that VB6 has and most people here have either VB5 or VB6. So code examples posted by the members of this forum might not work completely.

No doubt anyone here will still try to help you as much as we can :)

If you wanna try VB5/6 try the CCE (Control Creation Edition) which allows you to make OCX and DLL's.. You can run them like normal but are not allowed to compile them to EXE's... (too bad otherwise it would be a free VB version).

VB5 CCE - http://download.microsoft.com/msdown...e/vb5ccein.exe
VB5 CCE Help Files - http://www.thevbzone.com/files/Visua...B5CCE_HELP.EXE

Hope they help you in your endevour for VB supremecy or something similar ;-)

"ActiveX Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition" ;)

The thing is, it is a big jump from VB4 to 5, and only a small one from 5 to 6. You can find 6 for about $50-100 US on Ebay anyway, I think.

The CCE is free so he can first get a glimpse of the power ahead ;-)
After a few weeks it's time to hit that pink piggy on the head and head over to the stores =)

If memory serves me correctly, VB4 came in two flavors. 16bit and 32bit.

Which one do you have?

You probably should look into at least VB5, however.

As money is tight and I am in no rush to pump more money into M$ I will tinker with VB4 for a while. So everyone be patient and thanks for your help. :)

I think I'll try to tackle the calculator suggestion.

I'll be back.