VB Fundamentals

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I don't think there is much point writing a book on fundamentals of a commercially obsolete language. It sounds too much like the sort of thing that is destined to die a gory death after running on VBWire, but not before being ridiculed in Chit Chat.

Firstly, it'd be a website tutorial rather than a book tutorial...I don't think I pointed that out, and I should have :-)

Secondly, most people who know nothing about programming at all don't start with C#, Java or .NET if they're learning on the cheap (ie. not paying someone for training or buying a book)...they'll try VB2005 express (as it's free) or get a copy of VB6 (illegal through a friend, or buying if they can find a copy) and learning through that...VB6 is more user-friendly than most other languages and has a better learning curve :-)

If you can create a well written, ground up explanation of programming fundamentals without having to resort to examples in any particular language, you instantly have a far larger market, and far greater longevity. That's what I advise you to do instead.

A lot of the fundamental aspect of the site (as I think I said above) will be as language-inspecific as possible and should just as easily work on any other language as on VB6. Where an area (as far as I am aware) is language specific I will have notes on the site stating this so people know :-)

data types
constants
variables
assignments
conditionals
loops
error handling
classes
structures

I'm sure there's more....

-tg

There's a few there I didn't think of (and some I don't know much about myself too, so I guess it'll be a learning experience for me too :-))