Learning Visual basic

[matrik02]

Hi,

How to learn Visual basic?It alot of coding, some time I stuck while writing a coding, What is the best way to learn visual basic?

[kregg]

Err... just do it...?

[Andrew G]

By looking at people's examples and code and occasionally trying to code a program (even if its been done to death) like a snake game or something similar. It will help strengthen the stuff you've learnt.

I personally never learned VB from books, i just played around with it until you get it, its slower, but you get to experiment with different ideas.

[wossname]

Visual Basic is the hardest of all programming languages, it takes years of hard work and dedication, not to mention discipline to become proficient.

[NotLKH]

I started by learning basic on some sort of IBM mainframe.
It seemed pretty simple back then, in the '70's.
I then progressed into Assembly
Somewhere someone had the brilliant idea to try to teach me Fortran.
Didn't like it, didn't want it.

Later on, In the late 80's, I resumed basic with QBasic on a commadore.
Then in the early 90's, I started into VBA in MSWord, recording Macros and inspecting the guts. Eventually I knew enough to start hand typing my own VBA.

In combination, I taught myself CSH on Unix, plus a little Applescript on Mac.
Finally, I convinced TPTB at work to procure Visual Studio 6, such that I could truly dive into VB 6.0.

Eventually, as things progressed, I learned VBNet {for a couple of weeks, I was mistakingly learning C#, until I figured out I had misinformed .Net what my default environment was supposed to be}

Now, VB2005.


Ultimately, Outside of going to courses, Picking up "How To" books, the best way is to dive in, make c0d, stumble around in the dark, note your error messages and whats highlighted, research, ask proper questions when you've given up all hope, and learn from your failures and successes.



-Lou

[matrik02]

I start learning Visual Basic Year 2006.. quite new..But it make me become interest with it. How long you all become fimiliar with it?

[timeshifter]

I started working in VB6 about four years ago... a couple months back I got a job that required me to move into VB2005. Having the general VB background helped out tremendously, but as has already been mentioned, the best way to learn is to do it.

[penagate]

Moved

[Al42]

The best way depends on how much programming you already know.

If you don't know any, learn programming.

Once you know programming (or if you're already a programmer), get a good book on the version of VB you're learning and plunge in.

But if you start learning VB without first knowing programming, all you'll learn is how to modify existing programs.

[RhinoBull]

Visual Basic is the hardest of all programming languages, it takes years of hard work and dedication, not to mention discipline to become proficient.

Visual Basic is a complex and complicated product to learn indeed.
However, it is one of the easiest languages to learn simply because of its syntax which is still (even in Vb 2005) looks like the BASIC.
"hard work and dedication" is necessary in every business if you want to become proficient, not to mention the "discipline".